News & Articles Delay in KL-Singapore high speed rail link
Delay in KL-Singapore high speed rail link
27 Apr 2015
"The much-awaited high speed rail link – that promises to cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to just 90 minutes – is likely to be delayed by at least two years beyond the 2020 completion deadline.
Singapore’s Business Times (SBT) reported that earlier plans for construction to start by the third quarter of this year may have to be postponed till next year because key decisions have yet to be made by the two governments.
While the leaders meeting between Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong will be held on May 5, SBT noted “there are many ‘big moving parts’ that have yet to be ironed out, rendering the 2020 deadline a tad too ambitious”.
The paper cited a source as saying: “This (the delay) is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a huge project. More time is needed to sort some aspects out so that it can take off smoothly.”
Initial estimates for the project, originally mooted in 2013, is around RM40 billion."
Singapore’s Business Times (SBT) reported that earlier plans for construction to start by the third quarter of this year may have to be postponed till next year because key decisions have yet to be made by the two governments.
While the leaders meeting between Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong will be held on May 5, SBT noted “there are many ‘big moving parts’ that have yet to be ironed out, rendering the 2020 deadline a tad too ambitious”.
The paper cited a source as saying: “This (the delay) is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a huge project. More time is needed to sort some aspects out so that it can take off smoothly.”
Initial estimates for the project, originally mooted in 2013, is around RM40 billion."
Source: The Rakyat Post