[sustran] Fwd: "A joint project to build a monorail in Jakarta" MM Lebanon 9/8 (MTrans,

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--- In UrbanMaglev at yahoogroups.com, MagNews <clew at b...> wrote:

Malaysia will reportedly provide Indonesia with technological expertise 
to construct a 20-kilometer monorail system in Jakarta costing 400 
million dollars.

The project would begin in 2004 and be completed by mid-2006, 
Al-Jeffery Ibrahim, a director of the Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure 
group, told reporters.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the project was witnessed by 
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Indonesian President 
Megawati Sukarnoputri on the sidelines of a meeting in Kuching, 
Malaysia.

The MOU was signed by Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso on behalf of Jakarta 
City and PT Indonesia Transit Central. Malaysia's MTrans Holdings was 
represented by David Chew, its chairman.

The Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure group, which is building a monorail 
system in Kuala Lumpur, is the parent company of MTrans.
Al-Jeffery said MTrans was eying similar projects in Pakistan, Sri 
Lanka and China.

Photo attached:  A monorail train travelling above a busy street in 
downtown Kuala Lumpur. The KL Monorail was launched at the end of last 
month and it cost 1.18 billion ringgit (311 million dollars). The 
Malaysian-designed-and-built system is expected to carry some 120,000 
passengers a day by 2005.

http://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=571&CategoryID=7

A joint project to build a monorail in Jakarta
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