Prasarana: 12 new four-car trains for RapidKL monorail next year

KUALA LUMPUR: Twelve new four-car train sets will be introduced as part of the RapidKL monorail expansion project due to be completed in the third quarter of next year, thus doubling the current capacity of the monorail line, Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad announced Tuesday.

Its infrastructure development division group director Amiruddin Ma'aris said that at present, 12 two-car train sets operated on the monorail line with a daily ridership of more than 70,000 passengers, almost reaching peak capacity.