Malaysia's YTL to revive bullet train project - report

• tr@nsp0rt_F3V3R

  14 Mar 09, 14:58

  http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20090314/tap-malaysia-ytl-c3bb44c.html

  KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 - Malaysia's power-to-property conglomerate YTL Corp <YTLS.KL> is planning to revive a project to build a bullet train link between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, a Malaysian newspaper reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources.

  YTL is collaborating with Siemens Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a unit of German electronics firm Siemens <SIEGn.DE>, for the project that was shelved last year due to concerns it would be too expensive, the Edge financial weekly said, citing one of the sources.

  The newspaper said the project cost was estimated at 8 billion to 11 billion ringgit . YTL did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

  The revived project will seek to build the link along the coastline rather than the earlier proposal of building it along the existing track, the newspaper said.

   

• tr@nsp0rt_F3V3R

  14 Mar 09, 15:00

   

  Possible?

• tr@nsp0rt_F3V3R

  14 Mar 09, 16:20

  Dude.. y no one reply one... ..

• Dark Honour

  3 Apr 09, 03:47

  lol...i dun mind it being built...then in future can have single day trips to KL instead of sitting on one boring coach there :P
• Rednano

  3 Apr 09, 13:19

  we havent settle the land of tanjong pagar train station n the railway tracks yet...

• shinkansen

  3 Apr 09, 18:38

  I think this project they will abort it temporary due to the economy crisis.

  Who will ever fund this project right now?

• SBS8033D

  4 Apr 09, 21:10

  Originally posted by shinkansen:

  I think this project they will abort it temporary due to the economy crisis.

  Who will ever fund this project right now?

  yah lo

  I rather to keep the old and rowdy trains then having BULLET TRAINS. The old trains just refurbished leh, and change train, means waste money.

• willis_chong

  4 Apr 09, 21:25

  Bullet trains: 1 hour+ (at 300+ km/h), reach KL. :D

• Interception_7

  5 Apr 09, 21:44

  Originally posted by Rednano:

  we havent settle the land of tanjong pagar train station n the railway tracks yet...

  
  on a lease of 999 years.. still got a long way to go..

• Dark Honour

  7 Apr 09, 15:26

  Originally posted by SBS8033D:

  yah lo

  I rather to keep the old and rowdy trains then having BULLET TRAINS. The old trains just refurbished leh, and change train, means waste money.

  
  those trains can be used in future as overnight trains etc around the region anyway....they wont be made obsolete for sure (at a lower price than bullet train of course)
• shinkansen

  7 Apr 09, 18:35

  I rather take the the budget airline even faster. 35mins reach already.