Hang Tuah station
interchange station in the Pudu district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hang Tuah station, also known as BBCC–Hang Tuah station due to the new transit hub, is an interchange station in the Pudu district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, served by the Ampang and Sri Petaling Lines and the KL Monorail. Seamless physical and fare integration was achieved on 1 March 2012 when the "paid-up" or restricted areas of both the LRT and monorail stations, which previously operated as two separate stations, were linked up, allowing passengers to transfer without needing to buy new tickets for the first time since the monorail became operational in 2003.
Located right beside the Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC), the station is in the vicinity of the Methodist Boys' School of Kuala Lumpur, Victoria Institution, Bukit Aman (Kuala Lumpur Contingent Police Headquarters) and Stadium Negara.
History
LRT Ampang and Sri Petaling Lines
The light rapid transit (LRT) station was formed in 1996 with the completion of the Hang Tuah LRT station along a reused stretch of a long abandoned railway line, used by STAR LRT (now Ampang and Sri Petaling Lines) trains. The station was one of the first 13 STAR LRT rapid transit stations to open in the city, part of Phase 1 of the opening of the STAR LRT system (then known as "System I"). This phase consisted of the rapid transit line from Ampang to Sultan Ismail. Phase 2 of the line was completed in 1998 with the opening of the Chan Sow Lin-Sri Petaling and Sultan Ismail-Sentul Timur routes. (The route towards Sri Petaling has since been extended to Putra Heights.
The surface level station consists of two sheltered subsurface platforms connected to a sheltered ticketing concourse above on the ground level, linked via staircases, escalators and lifts, and exiting to Jalan Hang Tuah. The station layout is similar to that of Jalan Ipoh and Sri Rampai stations on the MRT Putrajaya Line and LRT Kelana Jaya Line respectively.
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