Transport Minister Anthony Loke on Monday (July 29) announced that the Light Rail Transit 3 (LRT3) is expected to begin passenger service in the third quarter of next year, with construction of the project currently at 95.6 percent completion.
He added that the Cabinet agreed to reinstate five stations that were previously cancelled which are Tropicana, Temasya, Raja Muda, Bukit Raja, and Bandar Botanik.
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He added that the Cabinet agreed to reinstate five stations that were previously cancelled which are Tropicana, Temasya, Raja Muda, Bukit Raja, and Bandar Botanik.
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00:00The physical work is almost ready, that is, by the end of October, all the physical work
00:22for these three projects, including several stations, especially the big station, the
00:28interchange in Bandar Utama, will be ready by the beginning of October.
00:33And after that, the system work and system integration will be started, and it is expected
00:40to take several months until early next year.
00:45And after that, it is ready for us to do testing.
00:50Testing and commissioning will take three to four months.
00:55So we expect that these three LRT projects will be fully ready and will start operations
01:03by the third quarter of next year.
01:06There is a slight delay compared to the original schedule, which was scheduled for March next year.
01:14This delay is due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of work that cannot be done.
01:21So there is a slight pushback in terms of time.
01:26However, the company, along with the contractor and all parties involved in this project
01:34have been trying to catch up with the time that has been delayed, and we have managed
01:42to reduce the delay.
01:45The LRT project is expected to start on the third quarter of next year, in August or September.
01:52The Ministerial Council meeting on July 5 agreed to resume the scope of the LRT project
02:03from Bandar Utama to Johan Setia, with the addition of five stations.
02:09Station Tropicana, Station Temasha, Station Raja Buda, Bukit Raja and Bandar Botanik.
02:17So there is an addition of five stations.
02:19This is the original scope that has been released earlier.
02:24Therefore, the Ministerial Council has agreed to return these five stations,
02:31along with several other works, namely the purchase of seven more sets of three-car trains,
02:37the expansion of the train depot in Johan Setia, and the purchase of 150 electric buses
02:44and the construction of three bus depots.
02:47So the cost of the return of the scope of the LRT project is a total of RM38 billion.
02:56The addition of these five stations and other works will take another two years
03:05but it will not affect the opening date.
03:11When we are ready to open for operation in the third quarter of next year,
03:16it will operate as usual for 20 stations.
03:20The construction of these stations will not interfere with the operation as it is.
03:25So two years later, there will be an addition of five stations,
03:28which means that the train can stop at those five stations.
03:34Thank you for watching.