RAPID Bus will add 40 free shuttle buses to ferry passengers affected following the closure of 16 light rail transit (LRT) train stations between Kelana Jaya and Ampang Park starting yesterday.

Caretaker transport minister Wee Ka Siong, in a post on his Facebook page today, said the provision of the additional buses was in collaboration with Smart Selangor and Mara Liner, each availing 20 buses under their management.

“Currently, Rapid Bus is providing a total of 83 buses to accommodate the high number of passengers. More than 120 buses have been mobilised to transport passengers on five routes as posted on Rapid KL’s social media,” he said.

Wee also said he would visit the Kelana Jaya line LRT operation control centre (OCC) after technical experts from the Thales Group in Canada and Singapore arrived in Malaysia today to conduct an inspection at the Prasarana Malaysia Bhd (Prasarana) OCC.

“I will get more details about the problem after the Thales experts have done their inspection. I will keep the public informed about the development on this matter from time to time

“We would like to thank the public for their patience and will do our best to solve this problem as quickly as possible,” he said.

Previously, LRT operator Rapid Rail Sdn Bhd said that the unstable automatic train control system was identified as the cause of interruption in the Kelana Jaya line LRT train service last Saturday and on Monday.

Prasarana said LRT services between the Kelana Jaya and Ampang Park stations will be suspended for seven days starting at 6am yesterday, after taking into account passenger safety and the time it will take to identify the cause of the service disruption. – Bernama, November 10, 2022.