The KVMRT project involves the construction of a public transport network based on railway, which along with the existing light rail transit (LRT), Monorail, KTM Komuter, KLIA Ekspres and KLIA Transit Systems, form the backbone of the Greater Kuala Lumpur / Klang Valley. It will mean that 50% of all trips in the Klang Valley are made on public transport by 2020, in relation to the current 17%.
The project was approved by the Government in December 2010.
The first subway line to be implemented was the Sungai Buloh -Kajang line. The construction of the line was officially launched on July 8, 2011 by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato ‘Sri Mohd Najib Tun Bin Abdul Razak. This is line 1 of Kuala Lumpur’s metro, covering a distance of 51 km with 31 stations. It is expected to transport about 460,000 people daily and to be completed in late 2016 or early 2017, after an investment of 5,500 million euros.
Sungai Buloh – Serdang – Putrajaya line: Subway Line 2. It will cover a distance of 52 kilometres through 36 stations, which will transport 529,000 people every day. Investment in this line is estimated at around 5,750 million euros. Its construction has been approved by the Government and will begin during the second quarter of 2016 and the first phase is expected to be completed in 2021 and the second in 2022.
Line 3: all the parameters are yet to be defined, but it is intended that a third round in the future line is built.