The Semantan MRT Station or Manulife-Semantan for sponsorship reasons, is a
mass rapid transit (MRT)
station that serves the suburb of
Damansara Heights
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Kuala Lumpur
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Malaysia
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. It is one of the stations on the
MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line and was opened on 16 December 2016 when Phase One of the line became operational.
The station is located near the Semantan Interchange (Jalan Dungun intersection) of the
Sprint Expressway
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near Wisma UN, the
United Nations
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(UN) representative office in Malaysia and the office area of Jalan Dungun.
History
During Phase One operation of the
MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line, this station was the southern terminus of the line where all passengers had to disembark. Trains would leave the station and made a turn back at the cross-over track above Jalan Sultan Abdul Halim before heading back towards
Sungai Buloh
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. With the opening of Phase Two on 17 July 2017, the southern terminus of the station became
Kajang
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station.
From 21 August 2017,
Manulife
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has been granted a 5-year contract for the naming rights of the station, which is located within 5 minutes walk from Menara Manulife, the Manulife Malaysia's headquarters.
Station features
Station layout
Exit and entrances
The station has two entrances, Entrance A is located on the north side along Jalan Damansara Endah while Entrance B is located on the south side along Jalan Dungun opposite of Wisma UOA Damansara. Both of the entrances have bus stops for bus and feeder services.
Bus services
MRT Feeder Bus Services
With the opening of the
MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line, feeder buses also began operating linking the station with the Solaris Dutamas and Kuala Lumpur High Court area in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim (Jalan Duta). The feeder buses operate from the station's feeder bus stops adjacent to the station at the Jalan Dungun entrance (Entrance B) of the station.
With the closure of Entrance B for the
Pusat Bandar Damansara station, bus routes T818, T819, T820 and T852 will operate from this station bus stop until further notice.
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Other Bus Services
The station is also served by RapidKL trunk buses at bus stops on either side of Jalan Semantan, and accessed via both entrances of the station. Semantan station is also served by a
Kelana Jaya Line
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feeder bus route, connecting it with the
Bangsar LRT station. The bus stop for the feeder bus is at Jalan Dungun, accessed via entrance B.
Gallery
File:SBK Line Semantan Overall View 2.jpg, Semantan MRT Station above Jalan Semantan/Sprint Expressway.
File:SBK Line Semantan Entrance A 4.jpg, Bus stop along Jalan Semantan/Sprint Expressway accessed via Entrance A.
File:MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line Semantan Station 4.jpg, Concouse level of the station.
File:MRT SBK Semantan platform.png, Platform level of the station.
File:SBK Line Semantan Platform 3.jpg, Kajang-bound train approaching the station.
File:Siemens Inspiro leaving Semantan , heading towards Kajang..jpg, Kajang-bound train leaving the station.
References
External links
Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit websiteUnofficial information resource on the MRT
{{Klang Valley train stations, state=collapsed
Rapid transit stations in Kuala Lumpur
Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line
Railway stations opened in 2016