The LRT3 Shah Alam Line‘s opening might be delayed to end-2025, if a report by The Star is to be believed. The English-language every day sighted a memo by which Prasarana Malaysia president and CEO Amir Hamdan expressed hope that there can be no extra delays in order that the undertaking can open for service in December.
“God prepared, the undertaking will enter right into a essential part referred to as the fault-free run (FFR) on August 25. We pray that this check will go easily as deliberate with no extra delays in order that we are able to full the undertaking in time for launch,” Amir mentioned.
Transport minister Anthony Loke mentioned on July 30 in a written parliamentary reply that LRT3 was 99.21% full as of July 10. Nevertheless, Prasarana mentioned on social media on July 25 that the trains can be “examined round the clock” till October 31 – a month after the focused September 30 opening date. This put up was amended to take away the date after The Star ran an August 4 story concerning the delay.
The 37-km line will characteristic 25 stations from Bandar Utama to Johan Setia, with interchanges on the Bandar Utama (Kajang MRT) and Glenmarie (Kelana Jaya LRT) stations. It has been subjected to varied modifications for the reason that 2018 authorities change, significantly to do with down-scaling and cost-cutting.
The MRCB-George Kent JV was appointed undertaking supply companion (PDP) in 2015. Following the jettisoning of the PDP mannequin for a fixed-price turnkey contract in November 2018, the contractor was rebranded Setia Utama LRT3. The Star understands that the FFR delays this 12 months had been brought on by a number of points, most notably to do with the combination of signalling, communications and electrification.
Later this week, the primary of the 22 trains should full 4,000 km of testing with out faults; the remainder should do no less than 2,000 km every. Every prepare should additionally be capable to journey your entire size of the road in an hour or much less at a most of six minutes’ headway, which is required to maneuver 18,630 passengers per hour per path.
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