Great news for Johor Bahru-Singapore commuters. Launched yesterday, KTM’s new Shuttle Tebrau train service between JB Sentral and Woodlands Checkpoint takes just five minutes.
Tickets for the first two trains leaving JB Sentral on Wednesday morning – at 5.30am and 7am – were sold out. There are a total of seven trips from Johor and another seven from Woodlands every day. Each trip can carry about 320 passengers, the Straits Times reports.
The departure times from JB Sentral are 5.30am, 7am, 8.30am, 4pm, 5.30pm, 7pm and 10pm. From Woodlands, it’s 6.30am, 8am, 9.30am, 5pm, 6.30pm, 8pm and 11pm. Unsurprisingly, trains from Woodlands to JB in the morning were relatively empty in contrast. ST boarded the 6.30am train and counted less than 10 passengers onboard.
Shuttle Tebrau mainly serves Malaysians working and studying in Singapore, and passengers said the shuttle – which costs RM5 from JB and S$5 (RM13.90) from Woodlands – was more efficient than taking the bus, which could take anywhere between 45 minutes to over two hours depending on traffic.
With the new shuttle service, Singapore-bound trains from KL Sentral, Butterworth and Gemas, which previously terminated at Woodlands station, will now end at JB Sentral.
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JB local govt should look into more safe services like this. How about a short elevated monorail across the straits with frequent coaches?
they have to get agreement from spore LTA which is the main hurdle right now
Singapore alwiz ok with service upgrade n all: oni malaysia still going backwards.. Example jb customs escalators most of the time is down for maintenance… And automated clearance gates, spoilt very often, and pucking slow… Please learn from singapore.
Not songlap, no approval
can u use a better word? U hv juz tarnished the name of my favourite town, Songkhla….
hondaman,you are right. Don’t think that we can do whatever to link everything across the straits to the island. Every trip of the train need to get LTA approval.
Never think that SG gov will make custom easy to cross over. The more easier, the more risky they are! Imagine what would happened if more M’sian people prefer to stay in Johor then. Even their own S’porean or expat will move in JB as well simply because of the high living cost in SG. Those people will prefer to stay in JB if the custom is easy to clear and travel. Imagine those people spending here, rent or buy houses here, go for clinic / hospital here…….SG government won’t let this happen!
So, don’t ever think to have a easy access between this two customs. For Malaysian side, I believe we always propose everything to ease the traffic we can but rejected. Don’t even mention about the ferry service.
I think it’ll be cheaper to electrify this track, and KTM can use Komuter 6 coach for this service. Can increase capacity by a lot.
THis is the correct step towards relieving the congestion on causeway.
Hope more and more train service will be available,
Next should provide ferry shuttle services, since causeway is so short, much like Penang ferry trip
They are already talking about S’pore MRT ending in JB but somehow the plan got stuck, due to politics?
As reported, this new train service is popular among those going to Spore because it is fast and seem to help ease the traffic jam somewhat, let alone the overall cost of money and worse still the time wasting costs. Yet, it is so unbelievable that there is no service between 8.30am and 4pm, a tell tale sign that there is a lot of arm-twisting going on to end up with this time-table which is really cosmetic. KTM, do your service for the people in Malaysia, because your existence is their reason!! Bodoh!
Now more Malaysians can enjoy the best of both worlds – Singaporean salary & Malaysian cost of living!
Inaccurate:-
1. It’s still new, i bet only 0.0001% of total daily commuter knew about this, thus less than 10ppl.
2. 5minutes? Yes, between kastam. Upom exiting Malaysia Kastam until before entering Sg kastam/ vise versa cost me 2minutes driving distance. The queue b4 entering both kastam is the1 that count. Most probably ppl wasted 1-2hours queue on both kastam, but driving? U sit in the car. Unless they made kastam check on the train or only 1 stop station passport check for both country. Else, 350pax for 3trip during peak hour? It’s a joke, and simple minded, they planned a crossborder schedule using a city mrt mind set.
Need more interval trip like every 15 mins during peak 7am to 8am & fare should be lower RM$5 toi attract commuters..
Unfortunately the peak hour at JB custom is 5.00 – 6.30am. And, the bus fare is RM 1.50.
MRT la…sole problem.
I took Shuttle Tebrau on Wednesday, and it was quite the experience!
Find out more at: http://chiennn.blogspot.sg/2015/07/singapore-to-jb-train-shuttle-tebrau.html
they should really increase the frequency of the shuttle.. its a good start, people in JB really need this. Just hope the authorities listen.
every 10mins 1 train will it be too hard?
haha dear2 my friends,come to singapore land more often..come2