Shah Alam line

Initial proposal In May 2014, the Shah Alam LRT was proposed to begin from Bandar Utama, Kelana Jaya, running through areas of Glenmarie, HICOM-Glenmarie Industrial Park, Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam city centre, UiTM, I-City, Bukit Raja Shopping Centre, Taman Eng Ann, Bandar Klang and then heading straight on to Johan Setia. This was later confirmed in October 2015 following the tabling of Budget 2015 where the Prime Minister announced that the government will provide RM9 billion to build an LRT project linking Bandar Utama to Shah Alam and Klang. Reception of approval In 2015, the public display of the line will was held for three months beginning in May at seven locations – the offices of the Shah Alam City Council, Petaling Jaya City Council, Land Public Transport Agency, Klang Royal City Council (then known as Klang Municipal Council), as well as the , , and LRT stations. It was also announced that construction works were to start by Q1-2016. In September 2015, Prasarana Malaysia Berhad announced that Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) and George Kent Sdn Bhd joint venture (JV) has been appointed as the Project Delivery Partner (PDP) for the LRT project. In October 2015, Prasarana agreed to change the route of the LRT line, which was originally planned to cut through the housing area of Taman Muhibbah in Klang to Pasar Besar Klang (Klang wet market) at Jalan Meru. Residents of Taman Muhibbah had objected to the proposed line which would run through their housing area. The LRT project was officially launched by the sixth Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in August 2016. Project cost cutting and downgrade to light metro After the fall of the Barisan Nasional (BN)–led federal government in May 2018, the new Pakatan Harapan (PH)–led federal government, citing mounting national debt, proposed various cost cutting measures to a list of federal government projects, including the LRT3 project. The Lien Hoe, Temasya, SIRIM, Bukit Raja and Bandar Botanik stations were reclassified to provisional stations while the underground station of Persiaran Hishamuddin was cancelled. The reasons cited for the changes made were due to the high cost of the project, unnecessary tunneling for the underground portion of the line and low ridership in the area. The provisional stations however will be built once demand in the area picks up. Other cost-cutting exercises included the swapping of six-car trains for three-car trains, cutting down the total trains from 42 to 22, reducing the size of the stations to four-car length and ditching costly acceleration techniques. The completion date was also extended from 2020 to 2024. During the Budget 2024 presentation held on 13 October 2023, Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced the reintegration of the five stations that were previously under provisional status (, , , , ) to be built alongside the rest of the Shah Alam Line with the exception of the sole underground station, Persiaran Hishamuddin, which remains cancelled. In July 2024, the opening of the LRT line was further delayed to the third quarter of 2025. In February 2025, the opening of the LRT line was confirmed to be on 30 September 2025, with physical work reaching 98.16% completion. Construction was expected to be completed on 31 July and then handed over to Prasarana. Trial runs were to be conducted from mid-April to the end of June 2025. The total cost of the project was ultimately put at RM21.93 billion. In August 2025, the opening of the LRT line was delayed again for the fourth time, which is before the end of 2025, as further tests such as the fault-free run (FFR) test are still ongoing. The delay was first teased by Prasarana through a social media post that the 24-hour train testing and commissioning activities of this line were ongoing until 31 October 2025, then further hinted on by a Prasarana internal memo, in which the company's CEO hoped for the line's opening in December 2025. It was finally confirmed by Transport Minister Loke, who stated that there were "slight delays", although he affirmed that he was confident that the line would be operational by 31 December 2025. ==Stations==