RAIL TRANSIT Thread - General News on anything LRT, Monorail, KTM & other rail works

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Did anyone from SSC attend this?

[Ijud]

Good news guys!!!

RM800 juta untuk tingkat keupayaan PUTRA

Oleh KHAIRUDDIN MD. AMIN

KUALA LUMPUR 4 Nov. - Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd. (SPNB) memerlukan kira-kira RM800 juta dalam masa dua tahun bagi meningkatkan keupayaan Projek Usahasama Transit Ringan Automatik (PUTRA) yang kini hampir digunakan sepenuhnya.

Pengerusi Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd. (SPNB), Datuk Nordin Baharuddin berkata, pihaknya telah melantik sebuah firma juru runding kejuruteraan bagi mendapatkan khidmat nasihat untuk meningkatkan kapasiti PUTRA.

Kami tidak boleh tunggu lama dan dalam masa dua tahun, kapasiti PUTRA perlu ditambah.

Kalau hendak tambah sebanyak 50 peratus, kami kena tambah 18 tren baru atau pun 18 gerabak (yang disambung antara tren sedia ada).

Kami juga hendak tahu adakah kami boleh mendapatkan tren atau pun gerabak ini daripada pembekal lain selain Bombardier,'' katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia di sini baru-baru ini.

SPNB merupakan syarikat milik kerajaan yang mengurus dan mentadbir infrastruktur pengangkutan negara termasuk PUTRA.

PUTRA berkemampuan membawa sehingga 180,000 orang sehari dan kini perkhidmatan transit aliran ringan (LRT) itu membawa kira-kira 170,000 orang sehari.

Ia menyediakan perkhidmatan untuk satu laluan sahaja tetapi menerusi kawasan penduduk berkepadatan tinggi dengan 24 buah stesen hentian daripada Kelana Jaya ke Gombak.

Sebuah lagi perkhidmatan LRT, Sistem Transit Aliran Ringan (STAR) memiliki kapasiti sehingga 500,000 orang sehari namun ia hanya membawa kira-kira 130,000 orang sehari.

STAR pula menyediakan dua laluan perkhidmatan daripada Sentul Timur ke Sri Petaling dan ke Ampang. Ia melalui 25 stesen hentian.

PUTRA beroperasi dengan 35 tren manakala STAR pula mengendalikan 30 tren.

Ditanya tentang pembiayaan untuk meningkatkan kapasiti PUTRA, Nordin berkata, SPNB tidak bercadang untuk meminta subsidi dan jaminan daripada kerajaan.

Tidak semestinya kami menerbitkan bon (untuk mendapat pembiayaan). Salah satu cara yang ada ialah menggunakan pembiayaan Islam iaitu pinjaman mudharabah (pembiayaan sewa beli),'' jelasnya.

Tambah beliau, bagi mengembangkan operasi PUTRA, pihaknya juga sedang mengkaji untuk menyambung laluan terakhirnya di terminal Kelana Jaya ke Subang Jaya.

[hypermount]

Extension to Subang Jaya..it's been under consideration for so long. No time to waste.

[Greg]

I mean what a coincidence that a celebrity is the 10 millionth passenger

Local celebrity Emylia Rosnaida Abdul Hamid is KLIA Express’ 10 millionth passenger. She won a Proton Gen.2, two business class return tickets to New York and one year unlimited rides on the KLIA Express.

Emylia received the prizes from Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at a special ceremony cum dinner held at KL Sentral last night.

Also present was KLIA Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd executive chairman Datuk Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh.

The event also saw four other winners receiving their prizes.

They were Gordon Herath, the 9,999,999th passenger who won two economy class return tickets to Sydney, Australia; Freda Yeo, the 9,999,988th passenger who won two economy class return tickets to Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei; Patrick Wee, the 10,000,001st passenger who won two economy class return tickets to Bangkok, and Norazlain Mohd Nor who won two business class return tickets to Jakarta.

Norazlain guessed the right date in which the 10 millionth passenger travelled on the train.

The prizes were sponsored by Malaysia Airlines, EON, Royal Brunei Airlines, The Empire Hotel & Country Club Brunei, KLM Air France, The Right Channel and Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad

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Originally Posted by hypermount

Extension to Subang Jaya..it's been under consideration for so long. No time to waste.

Yeah..they should do it now than latter. Before its too late...

[nazrey]

YTL and Siemens in talks to take over project
Updated : 05-12-2005
Media : Malay Mail
Story By : Sharen Kaur



YTL Corp Bhd, the country’s largest builder, and Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering group, may take control of the RM480 million Sentul-Batu Caves high speed rail contract, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.

Mail Money was told that YTL is in talks with Siemens to take over the three-packaged rail project.

"YTL wants to rope in Siemens to work on the three packages with Sentul Raya, by providing its expertise in signalling and electrification works," Mail Money was told.

It is firmly believed that Sentul Raya Sdn Bhd, partly owned by YTL, had secured the letter of intent (LoI) for the first package worth as much as RM230 million from the Ministry of Finance (MOF) last month.

The LoI for package two, worth about RM80 million, was given to Saujana Beta Development Sdn Bhd, a unit of Brunsfield Corp Sdn Bhd, while the LoI for package three, worth nearly RM150 million, was given to privately-held Golden Land Development Sdn Bhd.

Mail Money was told that Sentul Raya had been nominated by the MOF to work on package one, as well as manage package two and three.

The MOF had also asked Sentul Raya to interface all the three packages and deliver the project within schedule.

"The Sentul-Batu Caves project is an important project. The MOF wants to engage companies with railway expertise so that the whole system is delivered on time," said the source.

Apart from Siemens, the companies which have the infrastructure expertise to undertake the job are Bombardier Transportion, Balfour Beatty Plc, Alstom Transporation, Westing- House, Union Switch & Signal, Ascom AG (Switzerland) and Korea LG.

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KL: Old Train Station

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by JFMAJjasonD

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Sri Petaling station

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Computer glitch upsets schedule at LRT station
Dec 7:



BANGSAR BARU resident GERARD hopes Rangkaian Pengangkutan Integrasi Deras Sdn Bhd (Rapid KL) would investigate why trains sometimes do not stop for passengers at the Bangsar Putra LRT station.


“On Nov 29, I was at the station at 7.45am and was expecting the train which goes to the city centre to arrive at 8am,” he says.

“However, the train did not stop, and neither did the next one. I only managed to get a train at 8.45am.”

He says the first two trains were full.

“The station should have made an announcement on the matter to passengers,” says GERARD.

* RapidKL’s corporate communications senior manager Katherine Chew says that on that day, a train at the Universiti station along the Putra-LRT line experienced computer problems at 7.16am, and had to be manually driven back to Kelana Jaya for maintenance.

“The system experienced a 20-minute delay. The automatic service returned at 7.36am,” she says.

“As the technical problem happened during the morning peak hours, passenger traffic was exceptionally heavy, resulting in overcrowding between the Kelana Jaya and KLCC stations.

“Despite having some manually-driven trains servicing the stations during the period, many commuters were unable to enter the trains due to the crowd.”

Chew says the company provides empty trains from Kelana Jaya direct to KL Sentral at least once in the morning when the crowd is too heavy in KL Sentral.

She says no announcement was made as the train did not stop at the platform.

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Sri Petaling station

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[Ijud]

Utusan Malaysia: 16 Disember 2005

KUALA LUMPUR 15 Dis. - Kemudahan perkhidmatan tren monorel mungkin diwujudkan di bandar-bandar besar dan sibuk seperti di Pulau Pinang dan Johor Bahru bagi mengatasi masalah kesesakan lalu lintas kritikal di bandar berkenaan.

Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Tengku Azlan Sultan Abu Bakar berkata, langkah itu merupakan penyelesaian terdekat dan paling relevan dilaksanakan bagi menangani masalah kesesakan kronik yang dihadapi di bandar-bandar besar.

``Apa yang saya rasakan, keadaan kesesakan di Pulau Pinang dan Johor Bahru adalah terlalu mendesak. Dengan adanya perkhidmatan tren monorel ini, kadar kesesakan lalu lintas di bandar-bandar terlibat akan dapat ditangani,'' katanya.

Beliau menyatakan demikian pada sidang akhbar selepas merasmikan sistem integrasi di antara tiga buah stesen monorel dan Rangkaian Pengangkutan Integrasi Deras (Rapid KL) di sini hari ini.

Hadir sama ialah Pengerusi Kumpulan MTrans, David Chew dan Ketua Eksekutif Rapid KL, Rein Westra.

Sistem integrasi itu melibatkan kemudahan laluan pejalan kaki untuk pengguna ke stesen-stesen Transit Aliran Ringan (LRT) Star dan Putra di tiga buah stesen di Titiwangsa, Bukit Nanas dan Hang Tuah.

Projek yang menelan kos kira-kira RM6 juta itu merupakan kerjasama di antara syarikat swasta dan kerajaan untuk kemudahan warga kota menikmati perkhidmatan pengangkutan awam.

Menurut Tengku Azlan, kerajaan akan sentiasa memastikan keselesaan rakyatnya dengan menaik taraf sistem pengangkutan awam di negara ini.

``Kita akan kaji dalam masa terdekat ini untuk melaksanakan satu sistem bagi menangani kesesakan lalu lintas di beberapa lokasi utama dan kemudiannya akan kemuka kepada Kabinet untuk diberi pertimbangan,'' katanya.

Sebagai contohnya, beliau memberitahu beberapa perancangan akan dikemukakan kepada Kabinet untuk dilaksanakan pada tahun depan.

Antaranya ialah memperbanyakkan kemudahan sistem pengangkutan awam di beberapa lokasi lain di negara ini.

Untuk itu, beliau meminta semua pihak terutamanya golongan eksekutif dan korporat supaya menggunakan perkhidmatan pengangkutan awam itu seperti yang dipraktikkan di negara-negara Eropah.

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Less waiting, thanks to new bus timetable
Wednesday December 21, 2005
By LIM CHIA YING


IT’S shorter waiting time and higher bus frequency now for light rail transit (LRT) commuters, thanks to Rapid KL’s introduction of new scheduled feeder bus services.

Rapid KL chief operating officer (buses) Mohd Ali Mohd Noor said all of the company’s feeder buses would be operating on a fixed timetable to minimise commuters’ waiting time.

“Prior to this, we found that passengers had a hard time planning their journey as there was no fixed arrival and departure time for buses.

“With this timetable, we hope to reduce the waiting time for buses pick them from the LRT station, back home or to the office. It is our way of providing higher service levels to our customers,” said Mohd Ali.







Mohd Ali displaying the fixed timetable at a press conference.






He added that all 35 routes which Rapid KL feeder buses service currently would be following a timetable.

“The schedules introduced will be along the Kelana Jaya line (formerly Putra line), the Ampang line, and the Sri Petaling line (formerly STAR line).

“Of these lines, there are 13 routes operating between Kelana Jaya and Bangsar stations, another 13 between Terminal Putra and Dato' Keramat stations, and nine along Ampang and Sri Petaling lines,” he said.

Mohd Ali said buses have been on trial runs on all the routes to test the viability of the fixed timetable.

“We will also ensure that there are enough buses and that they are in good condition, to give customers the assurance of arrival and departure times.”

He said for busier and heavier routes like Kelana Jaya, University, Kerinchi, Bangsar, Bandar Tasik Selatan, and Salak Selatan, there would be buses every 15 to 20 minutes.

For stations with lower density, the service frequency would be between 25 to 40 minutes.

“In short, we are providing buses in a way that co-ordinate and support the operation of rails,” he said.

While existing buses are used, 12 new ones are being brought in for this scheduled service.

Mohd Ali said there would be a major exercise for the next six months from January where more new buses will be deployed for a new route network.

“Currently, we have about 667 buses in total, all of which are in reasonable operating condition.

But the new ones will gradually phase the out maybe by September.

“We are planning to acquire 1,000 new buses by then, and we have already 200 now.”

As for the scheduled feeder bus service, which commenced in Dec 13, operating hours are from 6am to midnight daily.

For details on the schedule, log on to www.rapidkl.com.my or call 1-800 388 228. Alternatively, check info at all LRT station notice board.

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Rapid KL

[jeeshyan]

Thinking of when will the electrical double track train come to Ipoh... It was a long waiting already...

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KLIA transit @ Bandar tasik selatan >> near szehoong's house