Bandar Sunway


Bandar Sunway or Sunway Town is a township in Subang Jaya, Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located 13 km southwest of Kuala Lumpur, and 9 km southeast of the Subang Airport. This township got its name from the developer - Sunway Group, which is also got its name from Sungai Way, a new village in Petaling Jaya.

Leisure and Entertainment

is a shopping centre opened in July 1997 as Malaysia's first themed shopping and entertainment mall. One of the mall's most easily recognised designs is the Egyptian-inspired Pyramid with a lion "standing guard" at the entrance. The rest of the building is embellished in the monumental style, complete with pseudo-hieroglyphics decorating facades, along with numerous Pharonic statuaries.
Sunway Pyramid was the only shopping mall in Malaysia to have an indoor ice skating rink, until IceScape Ice Rink opened in IOI City Mall Putrajaya.
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In the center of Sunway is the amusement park Sunway Lagoon, which has many different themed parks, including some of the biggest rides in Malaysia and a large water park.

Accommodation

Sunway has a number of accommodation options for tourists and business travellers.
Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa is a 5-star hotel linked to the shopping centre.
Sunway Pyramid Hotel is a 3-Star Hotel linked to the shopping centre. It lacks gym facilities. The hotel also does not provide breakfast within the premise, and requires hungry guests to walk through a confusing labyrinth of walkways to the Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa.
A newly opened hotel, Sunway Clio Hotel, is also linked to the shopping mall and provides 4-star accommodation.

Education

Sunway has also become known as a higher education hub, with two large universities in the area, namely Monash University Malaysia, and Sunway University, as well as other private colleges such as Sunway College, Le Cordon Bleu Malaysia and The One Academy, an accomplished art college that won the ADreline awards for 2006.
There are other notable schools in Sunway which are SK Bandar Sunway, SMK Bandar Sunway, :ms:Sekolah_Kebangsaan_Kampung_Lindungan|SK Kampung Lindungan and .

Healthcare

Healthcare in Sunway is provided by private hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, along with Sime Darby Medical Centre in adjacent Subang Jaya.

Religion

Sunway comprises many other companies and residences not owned by the Sunway group. Places of worship include Masjid Al-Husna, which is located right opposite Sunway Pyramid. Several Buddhist Centres and churches are located in the vicinity as well, most notably the nearest Catholic churches would be St Ignatius Church in Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya as well as Church of the Assumption in Jalan Templer, Old Town, Petaling Jaya and the Church of St Thomas More in USJ, Subang Jaya.

Transport

Bandar Sunway is well-connected to the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya and Klang via a network of highways, namely the Federal Highway, the Shah Alam Expressway, the New Klang Valley Expressway, the New Pantai Expressway, the North–South Expressway Central Link and the Damansara–Puchong Expressway. The township is also served by an urban-suburb rail link, the Subang Jaya Komuter station.

Public transport

Bandar Sunway is home to Malaysia's first bus rapid transit line, the BRT Sunway Line. It connects the Setia Jaya Komuter station in the north until the USJ7 station in the south, passing through Sunway Mentari, Sunway Pyramid and Monash University in the process. Sunway Monorail operated in Bandar Sunway from 2000 to 2007. The system has since been shut down due to the expansion of the Sunway Pyramid 2, and part of its infrastructure were later incorporated into the BRT line.
Alternately, there are rapidKL bus services connecting Sunway Pyramid to Subang Jaya station, some 15–20 minutes away. The Selangor state government also provides its subsidized bus service - the Smart Selangor bus route SJ02, connecting Bandar Sunway to Puchong, allowing an alternative to the longer Puchong-Putra Heights-USJ 7 train ride.
The Subang Airport is 13 kilometres from this development; since May 2018 rail connection to the airport is possible via an interchange at Subang Jaya station to the.

Car

Bandar Sunway is located near the junction of the LDP and KL–Port Klang Federal Highway. Motorists coming from Puchong, Putrajaya and even Seremban will opt for the LDP.
A few kilometres south lies another interchange, this time between the LDP and KESAS, which connects Pandamaran near Port Klang to Sri Petaling.
Running directly in front of Sunway Pyramid mall is the NPE, which runs from Subang Jaya to Angkasapuri in Lembah Pantai in southwestern Kuala Lumpur.

Politics and administration

The township falls within the neighbourhood sections of PJS 7 to PJS 11. Since 1997 much of Bandar Sunway was governed by the MBSJ, taking over from MBPJ. MBPJ however retains administration over the northern part of the township, including PJS 10, PJS 5, PJS 6, Sunway Mentari and Setia Jaya.
Bandar Sunway falls under the Subang constituency of the Malaysian Parliament, currently held by Wong Chen of the PKR.
On the state level, Bandar Sunway is represented in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly as part of Subang Jaya. The incumbent assemblywoman for Subang Jaya is Michelle Ng from the DAP who succeeded Hannah Yeoh of the DAP since the aftermath of Malaysian general election, 2018.