KL Monorail

Kuala Lumpur Monorail ( known as KL Monorail ) is an elevated monorail in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. It provides, in addition to two other conventional rail systems, one of the three urban rail-based urban transport dar.

The KL Monorail was opened on 31 August 2003, is operated by the KL Infrastructure Group and cost 1.18 billion Malaysian Ringgit (approx. 290 million euro ). They operated on a 8.6 km long, two-lane route eleven stops in downtown Kuala Lumpur.

History

In December 1997, the construction company Hitachi stopped the construction work on the track. In July of the following year took MTrans Holdings, a local consortium work again.

The operator of KL Infra made ​​continuous losses since commissioning. In April 2007, KL Infra began negotiations to sell the monorail to the National Infrastructure Company. This already operates the other rail and is owned by 10 % of the shares KL Infras.

Route

The route is a horseshoe shape from Kuala Lumpur Sentral station accross southern and northeastern parts of the city center to the terminus station Titiwangsa. Besides the two final stops at two other stations in the city railways Ampang Line (Star LRT) and Kelana Jaya Line ( Putra LRT) can be switched.