RadidKL has announced that the LRT service operations at six LRT stations on the Ampang/Sri Petaling Line involving Bandaraya Station, Sultan Ismail, PWTC, Titiwangsa, Sentul and Sentul Timur will be discontinued from 2 April 2023.
It added this is due to the train used for the service between the Bandaraya Station to the East Sentul Station can no longer meet the operating criteria that have been set and had to be removed from the service for safety reasons. It is a follow-up to the incident of structural and track damage near the Bandaraya LRT Station which has caused trains to unable to return to the LRT Depot in Ampang to undergo maintenance work since 27 January 2023.
To facilitate the travel needs of affected passengers during this time, Rapid Rail will provide free LRT 13 and LRT 14 Express Bus services starting this Sunday in addition to the existing LRT 11 Bus service.LRT bus services 11, 13 and 14 will operate with a total of 40 buses at a frequency of between 10-15 minutes during peak hours depending on the current traffic conditions. Starting April 2, 2023, the LRT 9 (Hang Tuah LRT – Bandaraya LRT) and LRT 10 (Masjid Jamek LRT – Bandaraya LRT) bus services will be terminated as well. In order to facilitate travel, all these bus services will use special bus routes that have been routed out. Enforcement will be carried out by authorities to ensure that this bus route is not misused by other vehicles.
