January 8, 2012
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Mahathir prefers his Crooked Bridge to Undersea Tunnel couple to Singapore
by Shannon Teoh@www.themalaysianinsider
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has questioned either an undersea hovel due as a third couple 
to Singapore is a best solution for flourishing traffic across a Tebrau Straits.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as well as his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong reliable progressing this week which both countries have been study a idea first mooted in November.
The former budding minister, who has one after another 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) planned to have 8 lanes."
Dr Mahathir said a hovel would have to begin far internal to safeguard a peaceful gradient for complicated vehicles especially 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 cost of half this project, assuming a alternative half will be borne by Singapore? The project will cost billions as well as will take really many years to complete," he wrote.
Dr Mahathir additionally pronounced a Causeway should b! e demoli shed if a undersea hovel is built as both Singapore as well as Malaysia will good from a removal of a 88-year-old highway.
"When completed, I goal a Causeway as well as a railway line will be removed. We will not need them anymore.Then H2O will upsurge easterly west as well as vice-versa. And small boats will be able to make make use of of a Tebrau Straits but having to go around south of Singapore," he added.
Just last month, Johor UMNO called upon a sovereign supervision to revitalise a 'Crooked Bridge' which Dr Mahathir has pushed tough for since a 1990s.
Dr Mahathir had additionally pressured Johor UMNO to revitalise a idea in Feb last year but Najib, who is keen to repair shared ties with a island republic, has been reluctant to discuss a offer which was received frostily by Singapore's supervision when first mooted.
The plan to rip down a Malaysian half of a Causeway as well as reinstate it with a curving overpass tall sufficient for shipping traffic to pass beneath was ditched by Dr Mahathir's successor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Dr Mahathir, who still wields poignant influence over UMNO despite stepping down in 2003 done his ire towards Abdullah really public as well as has one after another to harangue Najib over a construction of a bridge.
But a Prime Minister had instead preferred to discuss alternative potential solutions such as a third overpass with Malaysia's southern neighbour. He additionally successfully resolved a long-standing issue of Malayan Railway land in Singapore last year.
The Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) tasked with turning south Johor into a thriving economic hub, mooted a undersea hovel as a third couple between Malaysia as well as Singapore in November.
The Causeway, which is about 1.056km long, was! complet ed in 1923 as well as links Johor Baru to Woodlands upon a alternative side of a Straits of Johor. Between 80,000 as well as 100,000 vehicles make make use of of it daily.
The offer to build a overpass to reinstate a 88-year-old Causeway was fit by Dr Mahathir 
as a equates to to ease traffic congestion between Johor Baru as well as Singapore as well as promote a free upsurge of H2O in a Tebrau Straits in addition to allowing ships heading to East Asia to bypass Singapore.
But a Najib administration continues to uncover no intention of reviving a crooked overpass project due by Dr Mahathir to reinstate a Causeway, according to Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz (right).
UMNO-linked Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) is additionally set to levy a toll upon vehicles channel a Causeway in both directions after completing its Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL) which brings traffic from a border to a North-South Highway.
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