Expansion
In 2004, a shuttle line from the Tun Sambanthan station to the Mid Valley Megamall and an extension of the southern end of the line closer to Kuala Lumpur Sentral were also proposed, but was not approved, as of December 2009. The monorail will not be extended to Kuala Lumpur Sentral, but a link-bridge will probably be built to link to the Nu Shopping Mall and Kuala Lumpur Sentral.
To some extent, the KL Monorail system has been designed to accommodate future expansion. While some stations are significantly longer than the current 2-car monorail train set, providing room for longer train sets, extension works for other stations have been necessary. Such extensions have been observable as of May 2012, where RapidKL will be introducing the 4-car train set by the end of 2012.
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