The Budget 2016 is being presented by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak now, and the PM, who is also the Finance Minister, has briefly touched on public transport. Rail lines currently in the works are the MRT and LRT extension lines.
Timelines were mentioned. The Ampang Line LRT extension, which is 18.1 km long, will be ready by March 2016. As for the Kelana Jaya Line LRT extension, which is 17.4 km long and runs till Putra Heights, it will be operational by mid-2016. Both these projects cost a combined RM10 billion.
As for the MRT, Malaysia’s biggest and costliest public infrastructure project, the Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line is currently being constructed, and a part of that – Sungai Buloh to Semantan (near Pusat Bandar Damansara and Bangsar) will be operational by December 2016.
Phase 2 of the MRT SBK Line, from Semantan to Kajang, is set to be operational by mid-2017. This 51 km Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line costs RM23 billion.
With the above well underway, the next phase will include the MRT 2 project, which will span 52 km from Sungai Buloh to Serdang. The government says that MRT 2 will benefit two million people and will incur a cost of RM28 billion. Construction will start in the second quarter of 2016 and is expected to finish in 2022.
There will also be an LRT 3 line from Bandar Utama in Damansara to Johan Setia in Klang. This 36 km line is set to benefit another two million Klang Valley residents at a cost of RM10 billion. Work will start next year and will go on till 2020.
As for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), which made its debut early this year in the Sunway/Subang neighbourhood, there will be a line from KL to Klang. RM1.5 billion has been allocated for this. Good news for folks in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah – you can look forward to a BRT line worth RM1 billion.
Lastly, the government will continue to negotiate and discuss with Singapore for the KL-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project.
No 30% price reduction of new cars? Don’t know how to do it?
Fear KL will get more jams? Easy… KL plates pay full price. But they get to enter city center during peak hours.
Those who bought in n9 at reduced prices can only drive into KL at night time. Or weekend.
Ohh.. So much hopes for cheaper cars. Kanji dicapati
I got better idea.
W plate pay full but can go in/out anytime. Need to pay congestion charge.
B plate pay 15% less but odd num plate can come in on odd days only and even num plate can only come in on even days. Need to pay congestion charge.
N9+Melaka+Perak plate pay 30% but can only come in during nighttime and weekends & public holidays (state holidays cannot). Need to pay congestion charge.
Pahang plate pay 30% less but can come it/out anytime. Its special since it Najib hometown but need to pay congestion charge.
J plate and further northern plates pay 50% less but can only come in when the moon is at its fullest in the night sky. No need to pay congestion charge.
P plate is oso pay 50% less but can only come in during lunar and solar eclipses visible in KL. No need to pay congestion charge.
With this plan, I can guarantee a jam free KL foreva. Apamacam, ON kah?
In 2016, they will say completion delayed to 2018. Mark my words!
OK will mark your words. Publish your name here. Then they can attack you if they’re delayed.
Hereby to report that LRT Extension will be operational by 30 June 2016, which right around Q2 2016.
Now we wait the MRT 1 Phase 1 to complete and MRT 2 to start constructing.
How to keep track of so many different plates and charges? What happen if computer rosak?
May be those from Pekan, Pahang to issue with special plate that is 100% free to come in and out of K.L. and Putra Jaya, this is to reward their loyalty to you know who.
Lol now already left 1 Month to 2016
They can complete with that speed is a joke
They din actually say its 1st Dec or 31st Dec, right?
Sounds like u know nuts about construction project delivery
That dp suits the comment. Here, have my like.
Was waiting for the 30% reduction or at least something to do with cars.
BN is useless they have been promising rubbish for the last 58 years. Pakistan Harapan all the way for ge14
#reformasi
pakistan?
Sungai Buloh Kajang MRT1 route, original announcement cost RM25 billion, now up 7 billion to RM 32 billion..wow!
LRT3 tender price RM9 billion, now RM10 billion, another billion ringgit question there!
Haih..
SBK had to be realigned somewhat compared to original, increasing cost. Oso acquiring private property was not forecasted then, ie that run-down hooker hotel near Chinatown. Due to the need to pay-off these above land properties, cost again went up, no thanks to DAP (except for that hotel owner, he is laughing all the way to the bank saying thank q DAP suckers!).
Salah LGE again!..haha. btw total cost MRT 1,2 & 3. LRT extension & LRT 3 will be around RM100B…there goes our GST money then.
Actually not 32b I think. In their media releases its consistently quoted at RM23b. Could be a typo…
MRT cost increase…!!! Only insider know who control MOT…but kafir kiasu always try to accuse somebody else…puii…
are u retarded ? since when MRT and LRT construction/operation is under MOT ?
In this case, yes its totally their fault. It was an unnecessary purchase and at an inflated price thanks to pressure from hoglighting politicians.
So benefitted? The politicians who you see as heros. The hotel owner who sold his rundown property at suka-suka-name-his-price.
All these at the expense of your money. So do you still think those politicians were right?
Few years back, government promise rapid 1malaysia project.. Which each city will have their own citybus operation..
Hahahah. Promise just promise..
Where is the long propose JB MRT system ? The high speed rail also till now still under planning stage???
the government should plan all this earlier..build the public infrastructure first e.g mrt, lrt, bus station etc. then only develop the surrounding areas..
They should also allocate budget to build Bandar Baru around the new MRT stations.