Kuala Lumpur Monorail
Kuala Lumpur Monorail (better known as KL Monorail ) is an elevated monorail in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur . Along with two other conventional light rail systems , it represents one of the three urban rail-based local transport .
The KL Monorail opened on August 31, 2003, is operated by the KL Infrastructure Group and cost 1.18 billion Malaysian ringgits (approx. 290 million euros). It serves eleven stops in downtown Kuala Lumpur on a 8.6 km long, two-lane route .
history
In December 1997, the Hitachi construction company stopped construction on the route. In July of the following year, MTrans Holdings , a local consortium, resumed work.
The operating company KL Infra has made continuous losses since it was commissioned. In April 2007, KL Infra began talks to sell the monorail to the National Infrastructure Company . This already operates the other light rail vehicles and owns 10% of the shares in KL Infras.
At the end of 2011, an order to equip the line with ETCS Level 1 was awarded to Thales for 13.5 million euros . This should enable operation with four-car trains from November 2012.
route
The route runs in the shape of a horseshoe from Kuala Lumpur Sentral Central Station via south and north-east parts of the city center to the Titiwangsa terminus. In addition to the two terminal stops, you can change to the Ampang Line (Star LRT) and Kelana Jaya Line (Putra LRT) trams at two other stations .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Intelligence . In: Railway Gazette International . tape 167 , no. 12 , 2011, ISSN 0373-5346 , p. 16 f . (among other titles online ).