Automatic platform gates at all KL Monorail stations by year-end, says Loke

The Star

After over two decades of operation, the Kuala Lumpur Monorail service is set for significant quality-of-life upgrades beginning with a fully functional platform automatic gate system (PAGS) by the end of this year, Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced on Tuesday (Nov 26).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4jxuk8rm  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00As far as we know, this monorail has been in operation for more than 20 years.

00:12And from the beginning of this monorail operation, they built these monorail stations.

00:20In the past, there were no doors between the platform and the rail.

00:25This is because in the beginning, they only built two car sets.

00:31But in 2010, the government implemented a project to build a platform.

00:41They also built a platform between the platform and the rail.

00:53But in 2016, this project was suspended.

00:58And the doors were also suspended.

01:03And from the beginning until now, even though the doors were physically installed,

01:09the doors were never operated.

01:11Because it could not be fixed.

01:14And there was a problem with the signaling, with the system, and so on.

01:18And even though the doors were physically installed,

01:21but it could not be closed automatically when the train arrived.

01:25And this caused a lot of problems to the passengers.

01:29From 2017 until 2024, in this time, 10 incidents occurred.

01:37These incidents occurred when passengers fell into the track.

01:42Because there were no doors between the platform and the rail.

01:47There were passengers waiting at the platform.

01:50Sometimes they were too focused on the phone.

01:53And when the train arrived, they stepped on the platform and fell into the track.

01:57And this is very dangerous.

01:59And especially at KL Sentral station, near Brickfields,

02:04there were a lot of passengers from the OKU group, the blind.

02:09So the blind, of course, needed guidance to get on the train.

02:16And indeed, there were no doors, which caused a risk to the blind OKU passengers.

02:23So indeed, this project is very important.

02:27At the beginning of this year, when I met with the management of Prasarana,

02:32I challenged the management to prepare this project within a year.

02:38And they have offered this value to a company

02:44to prepare all the doors operations in April last year,

02:49with a contract value of RM6.81 million.

02:53So, although this project is supposed to take 12 months,

02:58but I would like to announce today,

03:01two of the stations have been prepared and are operating with their doors,

03:06which are KL Sentral and Tun Sambatan station.

03:09By the end of this month, four more stations will be ready with their doors,

03:15which are Maharaja Rera, Imbi, Hang Tua and Bukit Bintang.

03:19And in addition, by the end of this year, 31st December,

03:23all the stations, including Raja Churan, Benda Tuanku, Titi Wangsa, Bukit Nanas and Chowkit,

03:29will be ready with their doors, or PAGS.

03:35In addition, another problem that I often hear from the public,

03:43is that all the monorail stations are elevated.

03:46All the stations are on top.

03:48They must go up the stairs.

03:50And for OKU, they need elevators to go up to the station.

03:54So, we do know that there are many stations that are facing lift and escalators problems.

04:00As for the escalators, we do monitor and make sure that all the monorail stations,

04:04the escalators are always maintained, always in place,

04:07and that all the problems are solved as soon as possible.

04:11I would also like to say that by the end of April next year,

04:16all the elevators in all the stations will be prepared in terms of their maintenance,

04:22and will be repaired and ready to be used by the end of April next year.

04:27Because this lift problem is indeed a problem that has plagued our stations for a long time,

04:34and indeed now we hope to speed up the project to repair the lifts and also the facilities in the stations.

04:43So, all of this we want to improve for the users of public transport.

04:48Hopefully, this improvement can increase the number of passengers in our public transport.

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