Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd has finalised names for the 31 MRT stations located on the Sungai Buloh – Kajang line, also known as Line 1.
“The name changes are to better reflect the locality of the station,” MRT Corp CEO Datuk Wira Azhar Abdul Hamid said in a press briefing here yesterday.
Citing the Titiwangsa monorail station built more than a decade ago as an example, Azhar said it was actually in the vicinity of the Pekeliling flats and bus stand, rather than Titiwangsa per se.
“We want to avoid this situation from recurring. A commuter should know where he is when he arrives at any MRT station, and this is why we have tweaked the provisional station names,” Azhar said, adding that the Prime Minister had personally approved the final list.
“He made one or two changes after we presented our proposal to him,” said Azhar, who was probably holding his final press conference as MRT Corp CEO as he will be stepping down on Dec 21.
A MRT Corp official confirmed the new CEO would be announced by early next January.
Azhar also defended MRT Corp’s decision not to hold a public contest to name the stations, saying that all would like to see their own choices picked, making a satisfactory conclusion impossible.
Major changes include naming the Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh station (next to the Sungai Buloh station) as Kampung Selamat. Kwasa Land, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Employees Provident Fund, is set to gain further prominence as the Kota Damansara and Taman Industri Sungai Buloh stations will be named Kwasa Damansara and Kwasa Sentral respectively.
The KL Sentral station will be named Muzium Negara, as the footprint of the station is actually at the door of the National Museum, while the Tun Razak Exchange will be the final name for the interchange station formerly known as Pasar Rakyat.
Plaza Phoenix will be called Taman Connaught, which was also announced as a future interchange station between Line 1 and the proposed Line 2 (SSP). The reason of the change is due to no guarantee that the building would not be sold and renamed by the new owner.
| Code | Final Name | Working Name | Interchange |
| Stage 1 Operating Dec-2016 | |||
| SBK01 | Sungai Buloh | Sungai Buloh | |
| SBK02 | Kampung Selamat | Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh | |
| SBK03 | RRI* | ||
| SBK04 | Kwasa Damansara | Kota Damansara | |
| SBK05 | Kwasa Sentral | Taman Industri Sungai Buloh | |
| SBK06 | Teknologi* | ||
| SBK07 | Kota Damansara | PJU5 | |
| SBK08 | Surian | Dataran Sunway | |
| SBK09 | Mutiara Damansara | The Curve | |
| SBK10 | Bandar Utama | 1 Utama | BK1 |
| SBK11 | Taman Tun Dr Ismail | TTDI | |
| SBK12 | Phileo Damansara | Seksyen 16 | |
| SBK13 | Pusat Bandar Damansara | Pusat Bandar Damansara | |
| SBK14 | Semantan | Semantan | |
| Stage 2 Opening Jul-2017 | |||
| SBK15 | Muzium Negara | KL Sentral | |
| SBK16 | Pasar Seni | Pasar Seni | KJ14 |
| SBK17 | Merdeka | Merdeka | |
| SBK18 | Bukit Bintang | Bukit Bintang Central | MR6 |
| SBK19 | Tun Razak Exchange | Pasar Rakyat | SSP23 |
| SBK20 | Cochrane | Cochrane | |
| SBK21 | Maluri | Maluri | AG3 |
| SBK22 | Taman Pertama | Taman Bukit Ria | |
| SBK23 | Taman Midah | Taman Bukit Mewah | |
| SBK24 | Taman Mutiara | Leisure Mall | |
| SBK25 | Taman Connaught | Plaza Phoenix | |
| SBK26 | Taman Suntex | Taman Suntex | |
| SBK27 | Sri Raya | Taman Cuepacs | |
| SBK28 | Bandar Tun Hussein Onn | Bandar Tun Hussein Onn | |
| SBK29 | Batu 11 Cheras | 1. Balakong | |
| 2. Bukit Dukung | |||
| SBK30 | Bukit Dukung | 1. Taman Koperasi | |
| 2. Taman Koperasi Cuepacs | |||
| SBK31 | Sungai Jernih | 1. Saujana Impian | |
| 2. Sungai Kantan | |||
| SBK32 | Stadium Kajang | Bandar Kajang | |
| SBK33 | Kajang | Kajang | |
| Remarks | |||
| BK1 | LRT Bandar Utama – Klang | ||
| KJ14 | LRT Kelana Jaya Line | ||
| MR6 | Monorail Line | ||
| SSP23 | MRT Sungai Buloh – Serdang – Putrajaya Line | ||
| AG3 | LRT Sri Petaling Line | ||
| * | Provisional station | ||
“The name changes are to better reflect the locality of the station,” MRT Corp CEO Datuk Wira Azhar Abdul Hamid said in a press briefing here yesterday.
Citing the Titiwangsa monorail station built more than a decade ago as an example, Azhar said it was actually in the vicinity of the Pekeliling flats and bus stand, rather than Titiwangsa per se.
“We want to avoid this situation from recurring. A commuter should know where he is when he arrives at any MRT station, and this is why we have tweaked the provisional station names,” Azhar said, adding that the Prime Minister had personally approved the final list.
“He made one or two changes after we presented our proposal to him,” said Azhar, who was probably holding his final press conference as MRT Corp CEO as he will be stepping down on Dec 21.
A MRT Corp official confirmed the new CEO would be announced by early next January.
Azhar also defended MRT Corp’s decision not to hold a public contest to name the stations, saying that all would like to see their own choices picked, making a satisfactory conclusion impossible.
Major changes include naming the Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh station (next to the Sungai Buloh station) as Kampung Selamat. Kwasa Land, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Employees Provident Fund, is set to gain further prominence as the Kota Damansara and Taman Industri Sungai Buloh stations will be named Kwasa Damansara and Kwasa Sentral respectively.
The KL Sentral station will be named Muzium Negara, as the footprint of the station is actually at the door of the National Museum, while the Tun Razak Exchange will be the final name for the interchange station formerly known as Pasar Rakyat.
Plaza Phoenix will be called Taman Connaught, which was also announced as a future interchange station between Line 1 and the proposed Line 2 (SSP). The reason of the change is due to no guarantee that the building would not be sold and renamed by the new owner.
