An official request appears to uncover a list of towns related by a 620-km track.
PETALING JAYA: A inhabitant open ride request suggests which a new 620-km railway will link a Klang Valley to multiform towns upon a East Coast. At slightest which is what it looks like in a hairy picture (see below) in a final draft of a National Public Transport Masterplan expelled final week. The request is additionally accessible upon a Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) website.
Called a East Coast Rail Route (ECRR), a line may start during a single of 3 locations in Selangorthe Integrated Transport Terminal (ITT) Gombak, Batu Caves or Serendah.
It will afterwards enter Pahang, interlude during Bentong, Mentakab or Temerloh, Maran as well as Gambang prior to going to a upcoming Kuantan Sentral station as well as afterwards onwards to Kuantan Port City.
After this, it will go in to Terengganu, interlude during Kemaman, Kertih, Paka, Dungun, Ajil, Kuala Terengganu, Penarik as well as Kampung Raja.
Finally, it will move in to Kelantan, visiting Tok Bali, Jelawat as well as Kota Bahru prior to terminating during Tumpat, about 9km from a Thailand-Malaysia border.
The request does not contend if a line will be serviced by high-speed carriages or if it will be managed by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM), which is owned by a Finance Ministry.
Tumpat is additionally where KTM's 526-km single-track East Coast Line ends.
Most Malaysians living upon a East Coast have been depending upon its roads to get around.
Good for a environment! < br>The ECRR, according to a document, is approaching to service around 3.3 million people as well as progress economic expansion in a East Coast. The ride of goods by rail, it said, would be some-more environmentally friendly than by road-bound vehicles.
Secondary linescalled "spur" linesleading to industrial spots are additionally anticipated.
"The enahnced ride potency enabled by this rail plan is approaching to improve a East Coast Economic Region's (ECER) connectivity with a West Coast, thereby boosting investment as well as economic growth," a masterplan said.
"By 2024, it is approaching to carry a little 37 million tonnes of freight annually."
Engineering consultants HSS Integrated had recently conducted a RM29 billion feasibility study upon this proposal rail link for a government.
On its website, HSS Integrated settled which a East Coast Economic Region Development Council (ECERDC) had determined which a rail track joining all a major ports, commercial operation centres as well as towns in a East Coast was vital to grasp expansion to a East Coast of Peninsula Malaysia.
HSS Integrated was afterwards appointed to control a feasibility study of a proposed track as well as to determine a rough alignment which will most appropriate offer a East Coast.
A recent Bernama report cited Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as announcing which a initial stage of a rail would camber 109km from Kertih to Kuantan.
It additionally hinted which industrial areas such as a Gambang Halal Park, Kemaman Supply Base as well as Kuantan Port would be related by this railway.
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