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Reuters - Friday, April 18
Singapore says favours subway rail link to Malaysia
SINGAPORE, April 17 - Singapore said on Thursday it welcomed a suggestion by Malaysia to connect the city-state's subway system to the southern Malaysian state of Johor.
"The link should not be a difficult one and it will bring immediate advantages to both sides," Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo told local reporters, according to transcripts released by his ministry.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Rais Yatim had earlier asked Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to consider connecting the city-state's urban rail network to the Iskandar Malaysia special economic zone.
To be developed over a period of 20 years, Malaysia hopes the 2,200 sq km zone in Johor state would be able to generate jobs and investments in projects catering to companies and individuals in wealthy but land-scarce Singapore.
The two countries are separated by a narrow strip of water and connected by two bridges.
Singapore's subway network is managed by SMRT Corp and ComfortDelGro , both of which are government-linked companies.
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Reuters - 44 minutes ago
Malaysia says shelves bullet-train project
KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 - Malaysia has shelved plans for a bullet train to run between Kuala Lumpur and neighbouring Singapore, a top official with the government economic planning unit said on Tuesday.
"The government is not going ahead with the bullet train project because the financial model submitted would involve a significant cost to be borne by the government," Sulaiman Mahbob, chief of the government economic planning unit, told Reuters. The 8 billion ringgit project was proposed by Malaysian infrastructure and utilities group YTL Corp .
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That's a bummer.
I was anticipating a bullet train so that I can easily go to KL for shopping.
Perhaps Malaysia is not ready for the railway culture yet.
As for the subway link, perhaps it's better to develop a subway system in Johor Bahru and connect to Singapore MRT via a common station such as the case in Hong Kong & Shenzhen in which the common link is Lo Wu station.
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