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Pasar Seni |
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rapid transit station | |||||||||||||||||||||
Other names | 中央艺术坊(Chinese) தங் வாங்கி(Tamil) |
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Location | Nearby Central Market, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Prasarana Malaysia (LRT), MRT Corp (MRT) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | Rapid Rail | ||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) |
5 Kelana Jaya Line 9 Sungai Buloh–Kajang Line |
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Platforms | 2 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | 1 2 B2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Parking | Not Available | ||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | September 1, 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pasar Seni station is a rapid transit station in downtown Kuala Lumpur that is served by Rapid Rail's Kelana Jaya Line and the Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line. The station was named after the nearby Central Market (Pasar Seni in Malay). The station is within walking distance to Chinatown, or more commonly known as Petaling Street (茨厂街).
The station first opened on 1 September 1998 as Section One of the Kelana Jaya Line, then known as PUTRA LRT or LRT System 2. It was the terminus for Section One (Pasar Seni to Kelana Jaya), before full services were extended to Terminal PUTRA (Gombak) in June 1999, as Section Two of the PUTRA system.
Beneath the station, a bus terminal is located there, as well as a Rapid KL office.
The KA02 Kuala Lumpur station which the KTM Komuter serves, is a 400 m walk away, connected by a pedestrian bridge crossing the Klang River. There are also bus hubs above this station that connects buses from Kuala Lumpur to Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam and Subang Jaya. The roads and areas surrounding this LRT station serve as important bus terminals.
Opened in 1998 as phase 1 of the PUTRA system, the main entrance to the station is situated along Jalan Hang Kasturi, adjacent to the interchange with Jalan Sultan. Since the demolition of the old Klang Bus Stand or Pasarama Kota in 2012 to make way for the MRT construction, the space in front of the entrance to the LRT station has been remade into a bus terminal for RapidKL, GOKL and KL Hop-on Hop-off buses. In 2013 a new Rapid Bus Customer Service counter opened there, with applications for concession cards available. There is an auxiliary police post on the ground floor, adjacent to the lift.