3rd station is not in Merchant Square anymore. It’s nearer to the Lebuh Bandar Utama bridge.

That location is so odd. It used to have a tamil school there with a huge land area. I wonder if prasarana is gonna build a park and ride there or a transit orientated hub..

i hope for lrt 3,there will be a link to setia alam

wow all the way to klang. nice. commuters dont only have to rely on shitty ktm

Hope it connects to setia city mall.

yeah, this station will have a park and ride. But it is still an odd location to put a park and ride. For instance, you come to the station using Sprint Highway to drop or pick someone, then what? You have to go into Tropicana and make a big turn about through BU11 and BU12 to get back to the bridge and get stuck in the jam at the bridge?

LRT 3 klang station will "connected" with KTM klang town station

Looks like it. Unless there will be another road built which links directly to the bridge like how it was 15 years ago before they demolished it.

This post has been edited by mthc: Jun 18 2016, 03:51 PM

Thanks belfong for sharing, where did you find the source on the change of location?

You can check my link here (http://ringgit.loopgit.com/2016/06/lrt3-an...ndar-utama.html) for the chronology and it even have a map of the old Merchant Sq station.

The new station is marked at lrt3.com.my.

This post has been edited by belfong: Jun 18 2016, 04:47 PM

oH thanks....I got what u meant... would it possible the passenger platform is built near the bridge and the exit to parking/passenger walkway is near the Merchant Square? just simply a guess.....

Unlikely - I think they are easily 1km apart! Even including a car park, the stretch is just too long I think.

What about a bridge from the new proposed station next to bu11 to 1tech park?

You build a bridge over to 1Tech park to serve how many passengers? I think likely hood of people working in tech park is probably 2000 max? It doesn't make economic sense to build that bridge over. Besides, that road is a private road belong to See Hoy Chan and I doubt they will let cars go in to pick and drop passengers.

just a sharing, i have been (and still) a active commuter in Beijing and Shanghai.....1 to 2KM walkway from inside subway station to exit is very common...

just a sharing, i have been (and still) a active commuter in Beijing and Shanghai.....1 to 2KM walkway from inside subway station to exit is very common...

It makes a lot more sense to build the station near Merchant Square mainly because there is a commercial center there and there are at least two apartments building around that area. This, in comparison to building near Lebuh Bandar Utama bridge which serve, who? BU 11 residents?

Refer to the link, red color and blue color are platforms....whereby the green colors are the exit gateway to commercial center...make sense to Merchant Square

http://zhidao.baidu.com/link?url=YRxx8m08g...rRO9-EGWvyt8kp_

This post has been edited by stteck: Jun 18 2016, 04:53 PM

The LRT3 lines and station got some minor amendment.

It actually doesn't make any sense to cater to bu11 residents.

Bro merchant sqaure is quite a dead commie area. It actually makes more sense to build a bridge linking to 1tech park as there will be a huge catchment for the office workers, kbu students and also centrepoint bu which is sought to be the central fnb and commercial hub of bandar utama.

Maybe they build here so that both merchant sqaure and 1tech park/kbu/centrepoint can benefit tgt?

This post has been edited by mthc: Jun 18 2016, 05:18 PM