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Taman Tun Dr Ismail MRT station

Kuala Lumpur, Italy

Taman Tun Dr Ismail MRT station

The Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) MRT station, also known as Taman Tun Dr Ismail-Deloitte or TTDI-Deloitte under the station naming rights programme, is a mass rapid transit station on the MRT Kajang Line serving the suburb of Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur and Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya, Selang

or, Malaysia. Plans for the station's location were revised twice, after two earlier locations received objections during the public display of the line (mandatory under existing laws). The original planned location of the station was next to the TTDI fire station, which was objected by nearby residents. This forced Prasarana Malaysia (project owner of the MRT line prior to the establishment of MRT Corp) to propose shifting it next to the TTDI Wet Market, some 300 metres away. This too was not popular, and the majority of objections came from residents of Jalan SS20/10 in Damansara Kim across the Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP). The fear was that parking along the road and in the area would be congested by future MRT users. The third and final location necessitated the acquisition of two Caltex petrol stations on each side of the elevated station. There was also a small plot of land that...

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