| Style: | Rapid KL |
| Style2: | Interchange |
| Maluri | |
| Type: | LRT and MRT station |
| Address: | Jalan Cheras, Taman Maluri, Kuala Lumpur |
| Country: | Malaysia |
| Owned: | Prasarana Malaysia (LRT) MRT Corp (MRT) |
| Operator: | Rapid Rail |
| Line: | |
| Platform: | 2 side platforms (LRT) 1 island platform (MRT) |
| Tracks: | 2 (LRT) 2 (MRT) |
| Other: | Integrative station between and via paid-to-paid linkway. |
| Structure: | Elevated Underground |
| Parking: | Available with payment |
| Bicycle: | Not available |
| Opened: | 16 December 1996 (LRT) 17 July 2017 (MRT) |
The Maluri station is an integrated light rapid transit (LRT) and mass rapid transit (MRT)[1] located on the eastern fringe of Kuala Lumpur near and named after Taman Maluri (Malay; English: Maluri Garden), a residential housing estate. The station is located along Federal Route 1 Jalan Cheras (English: Cheras Road) opposite the AEON Taman Maluri shopping centre and Sunway Velocity Mall. The Kerayong River also runs beside the station.
The station consists of an elevated station served by the Ampang Line (formerly known as STAR LRT) which was opened in 1996, and the underground station served by the Kajang Line which was opened on 17 July 2017. Both stations are connected via a paid-area-to-paid-area elevated pedestrian linkway.
Under the station naming rights granted by Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp), the MRT station is currently known as AEON–Maluri MRT station.[2]
During British colonial era and until the 1980s, the site of the present-day Maluri station was a halt on the KTMB network called Pudoh Ulu or Pudu Ulu.[3]
The older elevated station serves the LRT Ampang Line which is built according to the standard design of the Ampang Line elevated stations.
It consists of two side platforms flanking the double elevated tracks, above a concourse level where the fare gates are located. Both platforms can be reached from the concourse level via stairways and escalators. Previously, there were no elevators, and hence, the station was not disabled-friendly until they were fitted in 2015.
The MRT station is one of the seven underground stations of the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line. The underground station is built directly beneath Jalan Cheras. The station has two underground levels - a concourse level with fare gates, customer service office, toilets and machinery rooms - and a platform below with an island platform configuration.
The theme given for the design of the station is "New Generation" and features colourful panels on the exterior and interior walls of the station.[4] [5]
The MRT station is the last underground station before the line resurfaces and heads towards Kajang.
The Maluri station comprises two separate station buildings which are connected via an elevated linkway.An elevated linkway connecting the paid areas of both the LRT and MRT stations allows commuters to transfer seamlessly between the LRT Ampang Line and the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line at this station.
The linkway was built together with the MRT station. It connects the LRT station at the paid area of the concourse level while at the MRT station, the linkway connects directly to Entrance C which is located one level above ground level. From Entrance C, escalators, a lift and staircase go directly down to the paid area of the underground concourse level.
As the linkway is part of the paid area of both stations, there are no direct exits to/from the outside. Unlike the MRT station, the linkway is not air-conditioned.
The alignment of the LRT Ampang Line at this location uses the alignment of the old Federated Malay States Railways tracks which ran from Ampang Junction, where the Ampang branch line left the West Coast Main Line (between today's Chan Sow Lin LRT station and Miharja LRT station) to head to the branch line terminus at Ampang town (where today's Ampang Line depot and Ampang LRT station is located).
This branch line was opened on 1 May 1914 and was mostly to cater to the tin mines in the Ampang area. However, no railway station is known to have existed at this location during this period.
The tracks crossed Jalan Cheras as a level crossing until the alignment was converted for the construction of the LRT in the 1990s where a railway bridge was built over the road.
The LRT station was constructed as part of the development of the STAR LRT project in the 1990s. It was completed and opened together with the line on 16 December 1996, along with 13 other stations between the Sultan Ismail and the Ampang.
The line was the first LRT line to be operational in Malaysia.
Construction of the underground MRT station began in 2012 following the official launch of the construction of the MRT Kajang Line. The station is located beneath Jalan Cheras. As a result, throughout the construction of the station, various diversions of the road had to be carried out. Decking above the work site was also erected to enable traffic to run while station box excavation and other construction work proceeded underneath.
The station was opened on 17 July 2017 together with the opening of Phase Two of the MRT line from Muzium Negara MRT station to Kajang MRT station.
There is no MRT feeder bus services which starts or ends at this station. However, the station provides some other MRT feeder bus services from other stations.
| T352[6] (As a pass-by) | Taman Shamelin Perkasa | MRT Cochrane | Jalan Perdana UtamaPandan Perdana Jalan Indah Taman Cheras Indah Sungai Besi Expressway Sungai Besi Expressway (Pandan Indah Link) LRT Pandan Jaya Menara PGRM Federal Route 1 Jalan Cheras MRT/LRT Maluri (Entrance B) Jalan Shelley Jalan Cochrane Jalan Tun Razak MRT/LRT Maluri (Entrance D) | For MRT Cochrane bound, the bus will stop at the bus stops nearEntrance B / LRT Entrance. For Taman Shamelin Perkasa / Bandar Tun Razak / |
| T400[7] | MRT Cochrane | Bandar Tun Razak | Jalan Tun RazakFederal Route 1 Jalan Cheras MRT/LRT Maluri (Entrance D) Stadium Badminton Cheras Jalan Yaacob Latif Velodrom Kuala Lumpur Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (PPUKM) Taman Midah Bandar Tun Razak Jalan Budiman MRT/LRT Maluri (Entrance B) Jalan Shelley | |
| T401[8] | MRT Cochrane | Bandar Sri Permaisuri | Jalan Tun RazakFederal Route 1 Jalan Cheras MRT/LRT Maluri (Entrance D) Stadium Badminton Cheras Flat Sri Sabah Jalan Ikan Emas Jalan Sekilau Flat Sri Melaka Taman Sri Permaisuri Bandar Sri Permaisuri Jalan Jellawat 1 LRT Cheras MRT/LRT Maluri (Entrance B) Jalan Shelley |
The Maluri station also provides accessibility for some other bus services.
| 450[9] | Rapid KL | Hentian Kajang | Hub Lebuh Pudu | Reko SentralBandar Kajang MRT Stadium Kajang MRT Sungai Jernih Sungai Sekamat Simpang Balak MRT Bukit Dukung Cheras–Kajang Expressway Cheras-Kajang Expressway Jalan Hulu Langat Batu 9 Cheras / Taman Suntex Cheras Sentral / MRT Taman Connaught Federal Route 1 Jalan Cheras MRT Taman Midah MRT/LRT Maluri Jalan Pasar Jalan Pudu | For KL-bound, the bus will stop at the bus stop near the LRT Entrance.For Kajang / Damai Perdana bound, the bus will stop at the bus stop near Entrance D. | |
| 400[10] | Rapid KL | Damai Perdana | Hub Lebuh Pudu | Taman Desa BaiduriAlam Damai Federal Route 1 Jalan Cheras MRT Taman Midah MRT/LRT Maluri Jalan Pudu Berjaya Times Square / Monorail Imbi MRT/Monorail Bukit Bintang Jalan Raja Chulan Jalan Tun H. S. Lee | ||
| 402[11] | Rapid KL | MRT/LRT Maluri (Entrance D) | Hub Pekeliling | Federal Route 1 Jalan CherasStadium Badminton Cheras Flat Sri Sabah MRT/LRT Maluri (LRT Entrance) Jalan Tun Razak Masjid Jamek Alam Shah Istana Terengganu LRT Ampang Park KLCC National Heart Institute (IJN) Istana Budaya Hospital Kuala Lumpur LRT/MRT/Monorail Titiwangsa | The bus technically starts from Entrance D.However, passengers can take the bus from the LRT entrance as an alternative. |