PETALING JAYA: The Kelana Jaya (KJ) Light Rapid Transit (LRT) line to Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) which experienced two-hour delay this morning was due to the power supply unit (PSU) component failure at its vehicle control centre (VCC) located at the Rapid Rail headquarters in Subang depot here.
Rapid Rail Kelana Jaya Line chief operating officer Ismail Abdullah said the major failure at the VCC was identified after they failed to communicate with the 19 trains that were affected on the KJ - KLCC LRT line.
“Our technician team was immediately deployed and conducted checks at the vehicle control centre and following the checks, they detected major faulty on the power supply unit.
“There are a total of 18 power supply units at the vehicle control centre which each has a lifespan of 28 years. The power supply unit that was damaged this morning, however, only lasted for 24 years.
“Hence, we need to do weekly basis checks on the supply unit so that such incident will not happen again,” he told the reporters at a press conference held at Rapid Rail in Subang depot here today, following the two-hour delay on the KJ-KLCC LRT line this morning.
He said more than 10,000 LRT passengers were affected by the delay as 19 trains operated on the line have to be suspended.
It was reported that the delay started from 6.30am to 8.30am. Many commuters took other alternatives to go to work in the capital city.
Rapid Rail also made announcements on the incident at the affected LRT stations since 6.30am.
Ismail also said they provided a total of 14 shuttle busses to 15 LRT stations on the same line.
“We also refunded coupons and tickets to 1,446 passengers that were affected. The trains were back to normal after two hours of the system start-up was completed.
“During the recovery process, we deployed expert drivers to manually drive the trains but the trains were moving in a slow mode,” he explained, adding that this was the second incident occurred involving a PSU component failure. The first incident happened in July last year.
“To avoid or prevent from such incident to occur again in the future, we will replace the 18 PSUs at the VCC in stages,” he said.