The newly constructed integrated transport terminal in Bandar Tasik Selatan Kuala Lumpur, which starts operating on Jan 1, is expected to improve the public transportation service and will ease traffic congestion in the city centre.

   

The RM570 million terminal equipped with advanced features, including centralised 24-hour customer service facilities, e-ticketing counters, public information display systems, dedicated halls for arrivals and departures, an executive lounge, suraus and WiFi service.

It even has rooms for changing nappies and also caters for the disabled, with directional tiles, lowered counters and special toilets, elevators and ramps.

   

Built on a 19.8 hectares piece of land, the six-floor terminal has 55 bus platforms, 150 taxi bays, 1,000 parking bays (with special parking bays for women) and 1,800 seats for the public in its fully air-conditioned waiting halls.

   

The terminal is projected to help attain the transport ministry target of increasing the use of public transportation in the Klang Valley to 25 percent in 2012 from the present 16 percent.

   

MAJU Terminal Management and Services managing director Roslan Mohd Shariff said the terminal is a continuation of the Kuala Lumpur Sentral project - only bigger.

   

"If the terminal is a success, it will be a model for other transport terminals in Malaysia and Southeast Asia," he told Bernama.

   

He said the three-colour stripes on the terminal's logo symbolised the transport systems available - the Rapid KL LRT, Express Rail Link and the KTM Komuter.

   

Apart from the trains, inter-city buses and taxis are available at the terminal, which is linked to the Sungai Besi Expressway, North-South Expressway and the Middle Ring Road II.   

   

For security, the terminal is installed with 500 closed-circuit television cameras and has 250 auxiliary policemen attached to it.

- Bernama