Cochrane Road is a road and a suburb in the Titiwangsa[1][2] constituency of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 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 to Pasar Road in Pudu.

Features

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

Since 2015, Cochrane Road hosts IKEA's second store in Malaysia after Mutiara Damansara. Linked to the IKEA store is the MyTown Shopping Centre, developed by the army-linked Boustead Group.

There were many government quarters in this area since the 1930s, until demolition in 2011-2012[3] to make way for the construction of the aforementioned IKEA store and the  KG21  Cochrane MRT station, part of the MRT Kajang Line.

References

  1. ↑ "Kuala Lumpur | DART - Delineation Action & Research Team". Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "P.119 Titiwangsa". Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Cochrane quarters levelled". The Star Online. Retrieved 28 June 2017.


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