Construction of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project has now gone past the 40% completion mark, according to Malaysia Rail Link (MRL) CEO Datuk Seri Darwis Abdul Razak. “Construction work for the entire 665 km ECRL line from Kota Baru of Kelantan to Port Klang in Selangor is at a progress level of 40.81%,” he said last weekend.
In his latest progress update, he said the construction of the 275km-long alignment in Terengganu, which is the longest compared to those in Kelantan, Pahang and Selangor, has reached 55.2% and is on schedule to meet its December 2026 completion date.
Meanwhile, construction has reached the 51.94% mark in Kelantan. Based on this progress, he said that the alignment – which covers 43.86 km of the entire route – is also expected to be completed according to schedule by end-2026, as Bernama reports.
The ECRL, which is a 50:50 joint venture project between Malaysia Rail Link and China Communications Construction (CCCC), has seen quite a number of twists and turns to its development since it was announced in 2016. From being cancelled in 2018 and revived the following year to changes in its alignment, the project has also seen its construction cost being revised a number of times.
At present, the project is proceeding with its cost reduced by RM11.01 billion from the original RM85.97 billion approved in 2016, prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said last December. The 665 km route connecting Kota Bharu to Port Klang, which will have 59 tunnels, is expected to be fully completed by December 2026, with operations expected to start in January 2027.
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Wee must be very happy that his original ECRL price was reduced by PH through changing alignment but once he came back to power he managed to reduced it even further and going back to the original alignment – so in the first place why it was so expensive –
We must be happy that Dr Wee did his job to fix the stupidity of PH trying to align the ERCL going thru nearly every state. If Sabah & Sarawak weren’t so far, their stupidity would force it to go there as well!
Thankfully we have a time when BN was back to make proper sense and now it is too late for PH to feed in their stupidity once again.
Well done Dr Wee!
What is so stupid when when u can reduce billion of ringgit of rakyat money?. The stupid one is spending rakyat tax money like they own the money.
Waste of money project that at most will be used to capacity twice a year unlike the HSR. It’s also not expected to bring any profits to the operator.
It’s a very important transportation for mass migrants from poorly no development land coming to lembah klang making a living
JW.u r right.
This super white elephant was “hatched “by the disgraced dude rotting in Kajang..Anwar has no choice but to continue since contract already signed.
Hundreds of landowners r badly impacted .Imagine your prime land cut into 2 by compulsory land acquisition.
When completed PM with Ahlokekor n Weewee ,n kementerian officials would be the “maiden” passengers,while Sharizat with her lembus belakang carriage.
75Billion Rm…can build how many schools,hospitals,taskas,rumah anak yatim ?
Build schools no use if education syllabus is substandard.
Our gomen schools look dubstsnfa4d ehen vomoared to equivslrnt ones in Singapore snd china whete schools are equipped with fields, running tracks, gym, halls, libraries, computer labs, music rooms…
Our mrt just for klang valley alone is already rm100 bil. Even with 500k passengers daily cannot even pay for cost of operations, not even cost of construction.
Booming economy in east coast will reduce congestion in west coast. It is beyond human transportation. Relocation of biz and industries, less local worker migration to west.
Right. Many people did not see this, only chanting waste of money, white elephant, rasuah etc. At the end their stupidity no end. Lol
Not really. Now it is cheaper to transport goods from West to East coast and vice versa because we can make mass delivery via traibs vs currently lorries. There will be more factories, businesses opening in the East coast. This will create better economy to the locals. Right now states like Kelantan & Terengganu is dragging Malaysia GDP per capita low. We need them to catch up with the rest of the country to give a boost to our GDP per capita. The way to do it is by investing in infrastructure and providing more jobs. The fact that we get an 80% price reduction is a big huge bonus.
And if Malaysia can’t pay back the loan in time, then Port Klang belongs to China for the next 99 years (that is what happened in Sri Lanka).
Another China “money trap”..?
That be Great News! At least we can see PLA warship Type 052D and Type 055 near Port Klang. Who know maybe can see China aircaft carrier berthing nearby… Malaysia navy ship not impressed at all.
Based on what fact? Orang kata bodoh piang. But i think you are worst.
The main objective of ECRL is to transport shipping containers from Kuantan port to Port Kland to bypass SG.That’s where most of the money coming in, not from human passengers.
Yes this. Also the spillover effects from new industries/ businesses in East Coast by having connectivity to Port Klang in bulk but not depending on road transport.
More businesses/ manufacturing work in East Coast creates job opportunities, thus reducing local migrant to the West Coast.
some comments here are just straight up braindead without any fact checking lol
Habis banjir area umah aq .. buat projek besar ii tapi x fikir risiko …