{"id":3610,"date":"2015-02-13T09:54:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2015-03-23T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T09:56:59","slug":"mrt-sungai-buloh-kajang-line-59-5-pct-completion-as-at-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/mrt-sungai-buloh-kajang-line-59-5-pct-completion-as-at-january\/","title":{"rendered":"MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line 59.5 pct completion as at January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR<\/strong>: The construction of the 51-kilometre Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line has reached progress rate of 59.5 percent as at January.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Ahmad Maslan, said despite various hiccups, development cost remained within the government&#8217;s budget range of RM22.18 billion, as most of the materials were bought locally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total of RM21 billion of the contract had been awarded with 38 work packages worth RM10.6 billion given to Bumiputera contractors,&#8221; he told reporters after visiting the MRT Taman Midah construction site.<\/p>\n<p>Also present was Mass Rapid Transit Corp Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) CEO, Datuk Seri Shahril Mokhtar.<\/p>\n<p>The underground section of the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line was at 73 percent completion as at December 2014, while for the elevated section it was at 49.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shahril said the company was determined to carry out the MRT Line 2 public display by end-May despite having to &#8220;tweak&#8221; the alignment.<\/p>\n<p>Shahril said the minor changes to the second line was to accommodate the Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail terminal in Bandar Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With that slight change of alignment, we need to go back on the drawing block and resubmit the new alignment to the Land Public Transport Commission,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div>Source : Astro Awani<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: The construction of the 51-kilometre Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line has reached progress rate of 59.5 percent as at January. Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Ahmad Maslan, said despite various hiccups, development cost remained within the government&#8217;s budget range of RM22.18 billion, as most of the materials were bought locally. &#8220;A total &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/mrt-sungai-buloh-kajang-line-59-5-pct-completion-as-at-january\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line 59.5 pct completion as at January<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[66],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRT-Malaysia-Infographic.jpg",538,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRT-Malaysia-Infographic-80x80.jpg",80,80,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRT-Malaysia-Infographic-300x286.jpg",300,286,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRT-Malaysia-Infographic.jpg",538,512,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRT-Malaysia-Infographic.jpg",538,512,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRT-Malaysia-Infographic.jpg",538,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRT-Malaysia-Infographic.jpg",538,512,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Admin Property Empire","author_link":"https:\/\/www.propertyempire.com.my\/blog\/author\/admin-2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"KUALA LUMPUR: The construction of the 51-kilometre Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line has reached progress rate of 59.5 percent as at January. 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