Loke wants more people to use monorail

Yasmin Ramlan Updated 5 years ago · Published on 9 Oct 2018 2:57PM · 1 Comments

Transport Minister Anthony Loke wants to increase monorail ridership. He plans to put more trains on the tracks and to ask train supplier Scomi Engineering Berhad to repair faulty sets. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, October 9, 2018.

ANTHONY Loke is reviewing the operations of the KL Monorail after a drop in ridership.

The Transport Minister said the average ridership fell from 71,943 in 2015 to 48,748 in 2017.

He said part of the decline was due to a shortage of train sets.

“We have only five sets of two-car trains operating at the moment and this has caused the frequency of the service to be very irregular,” he said after a site visit to the monorail depot in Kuala Lumpur today.

He noted that five sets of four-car trains have been grounded since January 2018 due to safety issues.

Loke said he was considering asking train supplier Scomi Engineering Berhad, which is locked in a contract dispute with Prasarana, to repair the trains.

The minister said a paper on the matter will be tabled to the cabinet. – October 9, 2018.