Cochrane Road is a road and a suburb in the

Titiwangsa Titiwangsa is one of the main areas located in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Kuala Lumpur General Hospital is located south of Titiwangsa. The current member of parliament for Titiwangsa is Johari Abdul Ghani from Barisan Nasional ...

constituency of

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Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. It was named after Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane (1876–1932), who served as British Resident of Perak (1929–1930) and later the Chief Secretary to the Government of the Federated Malay States from 1930 till his death in 1932.

Location

Cochrane Road runs in a northwest–southeast direction, linking

Maluri Maluri is a suburb in the constituency of Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, situated near the border of the constituency of Titiwangsa. It is located along Cheras Road and can be accessed through Maluri station served by the LRT Ampang Line and the MR ...

to Pasar Road in

Pudu The pudus (Mapudungun ''püdü'' or ''püdu'', es, pudú, ) are two species of South American deer from the genus ''Pudu'', and are the world's smallest deer. The chevrotains (mouse-deer; Tragulidae) are smaller, but they are not true deer. The ...

Features

Cochrane Road lends its name to two secondary schools in this area - the Cochrane Road School and

SMK Cochrane Perkasa Cochrane Perkasa High School ('' Malay: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Cochrane Perkasa'') is a co-ed secondary school. The school is widely known as SMKCP and the students of SMK Cochrane Perkasa bear the name Cochrane Perkasan. SMKCP is famou ...

. Since 2015, Cochrane Road hosts

IKEA IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands that designs and sells , kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been t ...

's second store in Malaysia after

Mutiara Damansara Mutiara Damansara is an affluent major township in the northern flank of Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Transportation Public transportation Mutiara Damansara MRT station is the main railway station serving the township. rapidKL bus route 8 ...

. Linked to the IKEA store is the ''MyTown Shopping Centre'', developed by the

army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

-linked

Boustead Group Boustead Holdings Berhad (BHB) () is a Malaysian corporation with over 16,000 employees across more than 80 listed and non-listed companies in Malaysia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. It is an affiliate of the Malaysian military. BHB was foun ...

. There were many government quarters in this area since the 1930s, until demolition in 2011-2012 to make way for the construction of the aforementioned IKEA store and the

Cochrane MRT station The Cochrane station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) underground station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the MRT Kajang Line. The station was opened on 17 July 2017 as part of the second phase operations of the line. The station is located in the ...

, part of the MRT Kajang Line.

References

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