The MRT Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya (SSP) line will not suffer the same fate as the MRT3 a.k.a. Circle Line, which has been scrapped by the new government. The second MRT line will proceed, but MRT Corp has been tasked by the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) to find ways to lower the price of the project, Malay Mail reports.
This was revealed by MRT Corp CEO Datuk Shahril Mokhtar after he met the CEP in KL today. “We are working on something, we will have a chat on how to find ways to reduce the cost further for Line 2 (MRT SSP Line). We exchanged ideas but the key is to reduce the cost so we could save the people’s money,” he said, adding that the line is over 24% complete now.
The 52.2 km MRT SSP line will consist of 38.7 km of elevated tracks and 13.5 km of underground tunnels. The first phase of the line, which cost RM32 billion, is expected to be operational by the Q3 2021 before its full completion in late 2022. The first MRT Sg Buloh-Kajang (SBK) line was fully opened in July last year.
Prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced on May 30 that the government is cancelling the MRT3 project, which was to be a loop line of the Greater KL/Klang Valley integrated transit system. Originally targeted for completion by 2025, the 40 km MRT3 was to have 26 stations with 32 km of it built underground.
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Remove the planned station next to Istana Budaya. This station is just 500m away from the next station and is totally wasting money and resources. The typical example like current Semantan and Pusat Bandar Damansara station.
That station oso caters to users from HKL and National Library. Dun just see 1 location only.
Please don’t be lazy. 500m also cannot walk. You expect the station to be few feet away?
Learn to exercise a bit
for the disabled and wheelchair bound, 500m is a long journey. I know cz I was on a wheelchair for two weeks due to an injury and going from your bed to a bathroom was a real struggle.
Seriously? U demanding those in wheelchairs, crutches or walkers, the sick, the infirmed and the helpless, to go an extra 500mtr just becoz u wanna skimp on the cost of building a nearer station? How heartless can u be? I hope this isnt reflected in ur gov policies.
I send my 85 year old mother to HKL for monthly checkup and a MRT station nearby would greatly help with travel expenses not to mention the hassle of going into City Centre. By putting a station 500meters further away, ur just telling my old mother, whose using a walker, to travel 500meters further away. While I wont say ur a cruel person, it does sounds like the words of a cruel person. Try to be in my mother shoes, struggling with a walker, to walk that extra 500meters. It will make you understand and be a better person instead of just talking/ writing w/out thinking.
500m is a long walk if you are wearing office attire with heels and a laptop backpack under 38 deg c 80% humidy. Big cities like paris or seoul and japan have station at every junction and their weather is perfect for 10km walk without sweat.
You have to walk down to ground then walk, that will count another miles, plus you have to cross flyover, junctions, taking shuttle bus etc. The stations location cannot translate the distance between buildings on ground.
Obviously you dun even use it, come here and bash blindly. But that is expected for never reading basher, just taking anthing from thin air and heresay.
Nothing to do with lazy, it’s about to cater HKL. Spells, HOSPITAL.
U know who go HKL? Or u even know what HKL is? 500m for broken leg patient is like 5km. I hope u get ur leg broken n not able to drive n have to use public transport to get ur treatment. #truestory.
Sapot u bro ali. This cybertroll talks nonsense. Wait til he needs to go HKL without car and see him walk that extra 500 mtrs. Talk is easy.
Maybe GRAB/ transit bus to HKL the best solution for people who go to HKL for treatment.
i agree with john, we need a station near HKL. Help our sick and old
Thats just another cost added onto HKL goers, when all they need is a nearer station.
Not only you talk nonsense, you even go so far as to discriminate against KL Hospital goers on their convenience to get to&fro from there. Isnt that cruel to fellow human beings?
I agree with ali above. I hope misfortune doesnt make you a KL Hospital user or you will regret your words.
john is still liking his own comment. But sorry friend, you cannot like 2500 times like how you used to.
Anyway, I agree with you, HKL need a closer station to help elderly people enter the MRT
The hospital cannot build a connecting bridge because they have lost lots of money from the unfair medical contracts given by the previos dirty Government.
Sori fren. U just got kantoied by so many other readers for not knowing what is HKL and being heartless to those who goes there. I dun need fake likes unlike u.
We need more Mainland people to come and help us with the planning of MRT and stations. I think the local highly paid MRT workers just cannot think.
But everyone here thinks ur too highly paid alredi with peanuts just to come here and spew bollocks without thinking.
Think what? Being a time waster and story spinner like you? Oh no
When tough times come, you know who your true friends are. Those who runs away and who hides
Good to inject brains into our local companies. See, 8 months laready and CEO Li has made so much progress.
In 8 months he did what local CEOs could not do in 20 yrs
only story spinner here is our regular troll who told us we have cheapest petrol in the world and cheapest car prices in the world.
But ur the same spinner that says majority of P1 sales was from gov fleet but PT burst ur fake news when repoting that 97.5% sales came from end retail customers. So how to belip u?
How about everyday P1 fail-ry tales in every articles? Why you dun count that too? Bashers dun read and spread fake newd
john, sorry. New Government knows that more stations mean more dedak for your kronies.
pity john, now kalah, got no more funding. Just ignore this troll
Azman, awang selamat etc are trolls and kunta dupes. Haha!
Good MRT3 has been cancelled. At least we have money now to reduce the RM1 trillion debt.
“The official Federal Government debt is RM686.8bil (50.8% of GDP). -LGE
Even I forgotten about that story, so please don’t remind me.
Tak brani tinguk hutang DanaInfra@@
DanaInfra bukan hutang. Blajar akauntansi dulu sblm cakap. Nanti orang pikir u bodo.
BN is so korup. Lucky we kick them out. Now got lesser BN cybertrooper in PT except for john who is still hanging around
Ur just the same paid PH trooper who now ranks as being heartless to the those in walkers, in wheelchairs, in crutches, the sick, the infirmed and the helpless. Lets hope ur viewpoint is not the same as ur gov.
Hehe. Even the FM have to come here and explain his mistake. But the more u pipu spin this story, the more investors runs away (average Rm300million lost per day), and then the RM gets weaker and weaker thanks to this fake story (alredi RM4.0005 per USD$1). Soon we will be like Zimbabwe as what PH pipu has told us. Tahniah, ur wish is coming true.
At least FM is trying to save your own country which was plundered by your own people. Just that you were too dumb to realise it was your own people who stole from you
Says the person whos to dumb to count, who spout lies, and even do the dirty by appropriating other pipus identity to defame others but got caught red-handed and red-faced. Ur too dumb to know who really plundered the country and too dumb to realise who stole from who.
The only dumb ones are those who wholeheartedly believes whatever their leaders tell them even if the story keeps changing from time to time.
They never learnt to think critically and never bothered to question these discrepancies.
Spot on, they blame other people but their own people rob from them.
Lazy and don’t want to work and always asking for bantuan
dah bosan dgn john ni. Investor dah lari sebab negara kita di gelar kleptocrat nation.
Hahaha. Dah bosan dgn basher kalah teruk sebab negara ekonomi lebih parah semenjak PH masuk dan LGE bukak mulut.
ha ha ha ha, still trying to spin story. Investor run away cause leader spends on Birkin handbags instead of creating tax free zones for investors to set up plants.
john has no brain or clue that his ruling elite is stealing from him. Babu kerajaan lama
The previous ruling made stealing, legit.
aiseh john, pls stop causing problems here. Learn to respect users here. Enough of your politics
i suggest PT readers just ignore this troll john. 3 years of just rubbish
give credit to john, now he got no gaji also yet he semangat come here to battle for BN despite no oay
Thankfully this one was allowed to proceed. MRT1 alredi cost down by Rm2 Billion so lets see how much Diam can saved. Since with better understanding from MRT1 and more accurate cost projection done for MRT2, it be a hard task to reduce just as much without compromising safety or service quality.
We shall see.
We know you are liking your own comment. Sorry you cannot like 2500 times like before because PT caught your trick
Oh sure. And we all know you were the one who was shouting about your success to dislike john’s comment up to 10,000 times, and changing handles hoping that we cannot recognize it was you. WE ALL KNOW WHO YOU ARE KUNTA!
In other words, you can’t dislike the comments of those you disagree by 2500 times like before because PT caught your trick. Don’t think us as fools for not knowing who you really are.
Meanwhile you get dislikes everytime, basher who dun read, twists stories, imbues hatred, creates fake news
Pipu sudah sedar
yes, PT found out about john and his 1500 or 2000 likes. Many times john kena kantoi but this time, PT put a block on him liking more than 100 times
Hehehe. Pipu here know who u r alredi!
everybody here knows john always thumb up his own comment 1000x
Everyone here knows that your the same nutjob that goes by many fake names and thumbs up his own comments while thumbing down others. Get a real job.
Hahaha! Look at comment by kingslayer below lah. Same same like mine except the dislikes the u repeatedly voted.
Meanwhile everybody knows kunta dupes always want to create chaos and disturbance. Feel free to skip his comments
I loled reading kunta dupes replying to each other, lol
i think most of us just ignore john. Small boy trying to cause problems here
Hahahaha! Lolz!
cut cost you shall, but never compromise on the safety & build quality!
have a regular shuttle van between hospital and LRT. i am sure even 10 years of operating shuttle will be cheaper than building a new station.
Ady implemented internally, you basher are too slow
Should’ve been Azmin, Anthony Loke or Lim Guan Eng to comment on this.
But then again, Mahathir is the PM.
Unelected CEP more powerful than 3 of the higher positions in govt. Is this still a democracy?
Answering to own dupe. Lol.
This is still democracy at its best. Double lolz.
More like AUTOCRACY and DIKTATORSHIP, bro Damon.
At least they cleaning up dirty BN corruption. Already seen so much? Well tip of iceberb. More BN corruption to be exposed soon
Yup, safety & build quality is most paramount. Hope those broker contractors heeding them. This pipu have been dropping big names to land lucrative contracts only to sell them off for huge profits. Jacking up costs and causing leakages in government spending for projects.
Not so for MRT projects. This was handled by master turnkey contractor that in turns sub-con to pre-qualified contractors. The cost is fixed so no jacking up unless from master contractor pocket, but there might be savings here and there by squeezing sub-cons & better cost projections.
Just like AP, give the selected few but they sell or subcon to others. Cause they lazy and just live on bantuans
Nope. APs under ur AP Queen jacked up prices astronomically, but using master turnkey contractor lower cost becoz the pricing alredi fixed so no overruns permitted. Somemore the liabilities (or as ur FM calls it “debts”), will be borne by the master contractor. But then savings can be passed back to the customer ie Gov. It was a brilliant strategy by Najib which is then replicated for MRT2. A project that was on time, in budget, and world class quality. Never happened during Bapaks time. Lolz!
You are lazy too being a keyboard warrior here
no more bumi middleman comany now to hike up prices
What happened to all the dap cybertroopers here? The comments section actually looks like a normal thread. Are they on holiday?
Dey here? Since when?
Naw, bro. It was just the kunta trooper here all along but he got burned bad whenever we ratted his false identity.
Hehe. Everytime he tok koks, I whooped his rear until he dun spout nonsense like b4. Either that or his paymaster alredi cut his salary, so he no more hard at work. Lolz!
I think you are talking about the BN cybertroopers. Still Raya bro. You see even kerajaan opis also still now closed
What opis? You must be waking up at 6pm after gone through clubbing all night long
Bn cyberdog not bad ,Very hard working and guarding the station ,evem the master has no dog threat for them
The basher slept late after party last nite. Now u can see him come back in with diff name at above, after he wakeup for lunch.
New Government has cleaned corruption in Malaysia. So no more trolls. Only one left in PT but soon, with no funding, he will go also
Govt should review MRT2 also bcos 2 stations at Bandar Malaysia are now white elephant since no HSR and development there.
Bandar MY & TRX is still going up, despite not having HSR. Hopefully next gov will revive HSR again.
Reduce cost is good, but do ensure safety always be First priority and should not be compromised.
Great decision
Buat station lawa2 satu dua ok lah. Ini banyak2 tak payah. Mrt1 orang indon ternganga mulut tengok station cantik sangat. Yang penting setiap station bersih dan ada peluang berniaga kecil2 untuk rakyat
Huh? You need station to train to stop. If it dun stop, how pipu wanna get out. Bodo.
So will the quality and safety be compromise? I once ride that old looking train from Padang Besar to Anak Bukit. The train delay for literally an hour.
I’m curious as to how decide on the choice of the rolling stocks(Siemens)? Have they consider Japanese manufacturers?
Yes. And they saw the jepunis rolling stocks at SMRT having so many problems.
I think the architecture design for each station is obviously high cost. Compared it with the station in japan. Less design but very effective service.
Err. Layout for each station is about the same except a few underground stations. The diff looks is becoz previous gov wanna gip chance for creative architectural students/SMEs. Otherwise all looks bland like a Russian subway.