Take a free ride of newly constructed MRT Phase I (Semantan-Sungai Buloh)

  Hello everybody! Public transportation system is rather important to define success or failure of country’s city planning. Without public transportation, it will let us, the citizen to be so inconvenient to reach a destination let alone the tourists who want to travel in a city. Thus, it can’t be neglected that a systematic public transportation in a city (especially a metropolitan or a tourist spot) will make the country’s tourism sector thriving.

  Recently, Our PM just launched the opening ceremony of the The Klang Valley MRT Sungai Buloh – Kajang (Mass Rapid Transit) line Phase I on 16^th December 2016. Although MRT Phase I only from Sungai Buloh to Semantan, but it is free for the public to take the ride (from 16^th Dec 2016 to 17^th Jan 2017). The construction of Phase II (Muzium Negara to Kajang) of MRT will be completed on July 2017. After this great master plan of developing our country’s public transportation in the hustle and bustle metropolitan (Klang Valley), it will bring in more job opportunities and development of property and commerce sector in that specific area.

   The Klang Valley MRT project was also made an Entry Point Project of the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) under the Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley National Key Economic Area (NKEA). The ETP is being implemented by the The Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) of the Prime Minister’s Department.

  Due to the newly constructed finished MRT Phase I is having a trial period for the public to take a free ride, so I spared out some of my time to take this long ride (All the way from Semantan to Sungai Buloh). 

How to get to there? If you are around the KL town center, firstly you take any buses to go to KL central, then wait for a Feeder Bus to go to the Semantan MRT station.

Here are some of the photos of this journey…

The view of the MRT Semantan station

Image of a Feeder Bus.

Interior of the MRT coaches, which is huge compared to the LRT coaches.

Klang Valley Rail Transit Map

The scenery of Kwasa Damansara.

A shop lot inside Sungai Buloh MRT station which is the terminal station.

Sungai Buloh station is also an Interchange Station to the KTM rail line. So, this is the view of the KTM rail line.

This video will give more details about the MRT Malaysia. Have a look. (Video taken from soyacincautv)

  In conclusion, I like this newly constructed MRT public transport as its coaches are huge compared to the LRT Kelana Jaya and Sri Petalling line. This is able to accommodate more commuters during the peak hours where lots of people are rushing to work or back home from working place. If our country’s public transportation becoming more systematic, automatically more people are convinced to take public transport to a destination and yet environmental pollutions that occur in Malaysia possibly will be reduced.

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