Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station is going to be redeveloped at the end of 2024. Here are some ideas to improve the station. KL Sentral opened in 2001, replacing Kuala Lumpur Station as the central station. KL Sentral was designed to handle 100,000 commuters a day, but it’s now handling 200,000 commuters per day. After over […]
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Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station redevelopment
The Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station redevelopment is a proposed rebuild of the central station of Kuala Lumpur. KL Sentral was built in 2001 (replacing Kuala Lumpur Station as the central station), and it was designed to accommodate 100,000 commuters a day. The station now sees 200,000 commuters per day. The estimated RM1 billion project will […]
Kuala Lumpur construction update – 2024 edition
This is a summary of the major construction projects in Kuala Lumpur that I visited in April 2024. Merdeka 118 Merdeka 118 topped out in November 2021 at 678.9 metres, though it is still not quite ready to open. Merdeka 118 is close to the Chinatown area (a few minutes walk), so there will be […]
Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High-Speed Rail
The Kuala Lumpur–Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) was a planned railway from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Singapore via a high-speed rail line. This would be a new line on a different route to the current KL-Singapore railway. The high-speed railway would travel at a speed of 320km/h over 350 kilometres, with a travel time of 90 […]
Improving the interchanges and connections of the KL metro transit system
Kuala Lumpur has slowly and steadily been building out an urban rail transit system that it hopes will reduce the city’s car addiction. Mistakes were made early on with integrating the lines, but there have been some great improvements in recent years. In fact, KL has examples of the best and worst ways to make […]
Kuala Lumpur construction update – 2022 edition
Kuala Lumpur has some big-ticket projects under construction, including the first megatall skyscraper in Southeast Asia. Like the rest of Southeast Asia, Malaysia had an international lockout when Covid broke out in 2020, and it didn’t fully reopen until 2022. This affected projects that rely on migrant labour, but the projects that were already funded […]
Bangkok – Kuala Lumpur High-Speed Railway
The Bangkok – Kuala Lumpur High-Speed Railway is a proposed standard gauge railway that would run alongside the current meter-gauge railway used by Thailand and Malaysia. The line would be between 1,400km and 1,500km long and would be able to make the trip in six hours. The line would go via Hat Yai-Padang Besar and […]
Bandar Malaysia – New Central Business District and transport hub in Kuala Lumpur
Bandar Malaysia is an urban redevelopment project on the Sungai Besi Airport site in Kuala Lumpur. The 486-acre site will include commercial and residential buildings as well as being a major transport hub. Bandar Malaysia will be the terminal station for the Singapore-KL HSR, and will have connections with Mass Rapid Transit and commuter railways, […]
Bukit Bintang City Centre
Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC) is a new urban development in central Kuala Lumpur. This mixed use project includes residential towers, hotels, retail and entertainment spaces, and a transit hub. There are gardens and other open spaces, and the site will include a signature landmark tower. The 19.4-acre property is at the site of the […]
Future Kuala Lumpur – Construction projects planned and under construction in KL
Kuala Lumpur isn’t the biggest capital city in Southeast Asia, and it’s not even in the top 10 biggest cities. Yet it tops the list for most buildings over 100 metres. And out of five buildings over 400 metres in the region, four of them are in KL. Not only has it got density, but […]
