A Dialogue Briefing on the LRT Route Extension was held at the 3K Complex in Subang Jaya. About 500 residents eagerly turned up to gather more information on the planned extension. Also present was the Minister of Transport Dato Sri Ong Tee Keat. The brief by Prasarana Sdn Bhd was led by their Group MD Dato Idrose bin Mohamed.
Dato Idrose explained that the plan was only a proposal and there may be changes but residents will be given 3 months to provide feedback and objections, if any, after their final proposal was drafted and presented to the public. In his brief, he stressed that the route of the extension would try to avoid residential areas wherever possible, and that due consideration would be given to safeguard the environment and residents concern.
He went on to explain that the new route would run from Subang and the first stop would link up to the existing KTM Komuter behind Carrefour. The route would then run along Persiaran Jenka, past the NPE and straight to KESAS. The route would then ride on the reserved land along KESAS before touching Kewajipan, turn towards Summit and then all the way along Kewajipan until it ends up at Putra Height. This is the route in brief.
There will be 13 stations, with a few Park & Ride stations, one of which will be the USJ 21 multi storey carpark that is currently under-utilised. Most of the Park & Ride stations should have about 1000 to 1500 car park lots.
After the briefing, the question and answer session took on a very dynamic scenario with many comments, suggestions and questions. One of the expected question raised was why the route did not extend past Sunway. Prasarana explained that this was due to technical problems and obstruction caused by the few flyover structures at Kewajipan, but they would take this request into consideration. Moderator Raymond Tan had his hands full as some residents took up more than their allocated time whilst some others were overcome by more than just excitement.
