By Shannon Teoh
January 08, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, January 8 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has questioned whether an undersea hovel proposed as a third couple to Singapore is a best resolution for flourishing trade across a Tebrau Straits. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as good as his Singaporean reflection Lee Hsien Loong confirmed earlier this week which both countries are studying a thought initial mooted in November.
The former budding minister, who has continued to lobby for his 'Crooked Bridge' to reinstate a Causeway, pronounced in a blog posting yesterday two tunnels competence be compulsory as a "bridge which will not be built right away (was) programmed to have 8 lanes."
Dr Mahathir(picture)said a hovel would have to proceed distant inland to safeguard a peaceful gradient for heavy vehicles generally if a Singapore MRT is to make make use of of it as well.
"Trains need even some-more peaceful slopes. So a length competence be some-more than 8 kilometres.
"Can Malaysia afford a price of half this project, assuming a alternative half will be borne by Singapore? The devise will price billions as good as will take really most years to complete," he wrote.
Dr Mahathir additionally pronounced a Causeway should be demolished if a undersea hovel is built as both Singapore as good as Malaysia will good from a removal of a 88-year-old highway.
"When completed, I hope a Causeway as good as a railway line will be removed. We will not need them anymore.
"Then H2O will flow east west as good as vice-versa. And tiny boats will be means to make make use of of a Tebrau Straits without having to go around south of Singapore," he wrote.
Just final month, Johor Umno called upon a sovereign supervision to revitalise a 'Crooked Bridge' which Dr Mahathir has pu! shed tou gh for given a 1990s.
Dr Mahathir had additionally pressured Johor Umno to revitalise a thought in February final year but Najib, who is penetrating to correct bilateral ties with a island republic, has been demure to plead a offer which was received frostily by Singapore's supervision when initial mooted.
The devise to rip down a Malaysian half of a Causeway as good as reinstate it with a curving overpass high sufficient for shipping trade to pass beneath was ditched by Dr Mahathir's successor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Dr Mahathir, who still wields significant change over Umno despite stepping down in 2003, made his madness towards Abdullah really public as good as has continued to harangue Najib over a construction of a bridge.
But a budding apportion had instead preferred to plead alternative potential solutions such as a third overpass with Malaysia's southern neighbour. He additionally successfully resolved a long-standing emanate of Malayan Railway land in Singapore final year.
The Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) tasked with branch south Johor into a thriving mercantile hub, mooted a undersea hovel as a third couple between Malaysia as good as Singapore in November.
The Causeway, which is about 1.056km long, was finished in 1923 as good as links Johor Baru to Woodlands upon a alternative side of a Straits of Johor. Between 80,000 as good as 100,000 vehicles make make use of of it daily.
The offer to set up a overpass to reinstate a 88-year-old Causeway was fit by Dr Mahathir as a means to palliate trade congestion between Johor Baru as good as Singapore as good as promote a free flow of H2O in a Tebrau Straits in addition to permitting ships heading to East Middle East to bypass Singapore.
But a Najib administration department continues to show no goal of reviving a crooked overpass devise proposed by Dr Mahathir to reinstate a Causeway, according to Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz.
Um! no-linke d Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) is additionally set to levy a fee upon vehicles crossing a Causeway in both directions after completing its Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL) which brings trade from a border to a North-South Highway.
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