Construction of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) has now progressed to the 62.4% completion mark, according to Malaysia Rail Link (MRL) CEO Darwis Abdul Razak. He said that construction is proceeding smoothly, with the Kelantan phase of the project presently at 75.8%, as Bernama reports.
“The 43 km ECRL alignment in Kelantan involves the construction of two stations, Kota Bharu for passengers only, and Pasir Puteh Station for passengers and cargo,” he said. As for Terengganu, progress of the project has gone past 80%, with most of the infrastructure work completed.
He added that the construction of bridges for elevated sections was also progressing well. “Recently, we successfully dug through three tunnels, bringing the total to 30 (tunnels) out of 41,” he said.
Darwis said that the alignment from Kota Bharu to the integrated transport terminal in Gombak, Selangor, is expected to be completed on schedule in December 2026, with services slated to commence from January 2027. “Meanwhile, the ECRL alignment from Gombak to Port Klang is scheduled to be completed by December 2027,” he said.
The ECRL, which is a 50:50 joint venture project between Malaysia Rail Link and China Communications Construction (CCCC), was announced in 2016. It was then cancelled in 2018, but revived the following year with changes to its alignment.
The 665 km route connecting Kota Bharu to Port Klang, which will have 59 tunnels, is expected to reduce travel time between these points to four hours from the current seven hours needed for an equivalent road journey, or more than 12 hours during festive seasons.
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I think the map is wrong. It’s showing one of the earlier alignments with the line ending in putrajaya rather than gombak
No excuse to absent parliament lo
Memang no excuse even without ECRL…got house in KL area….nice area some more not like us pipit.
parliament is in KL la bro
Yeah…agreed…that was not the right alignment…the newest one go from Bentong-Gombak, not via N Sembilan….
Thank you Najib Razak
for 1mdb billion loan paid using taxpayers money? oh ok..
Pakatan still haven’t showed us where the loss comes from. So if loses are imaginary then so is the loan paid back. Then where did the money come from and where did it go? PH pockets?
U’re welcome
Wait until U see
It turns profitable
Tenkiu Pak Najib for making this a reality and tenkiu Pak Sabri for returning the layout back to original after PH screwed it up. Lucky us this project has gone too far for current PH to screw it up again. LTL did his job well for pushing thru the progress before he left as transport minister.
This rail project is so unnecessary. It is just attracting more of the folks to the cities. In turn, these folks want to turn the cities back into the place they are escaping in the first place.
Without this gamechanger project, the Thais would have allowed China to dig their Kra canal then all trade would effectively bypass Msia. That will kill Msian economy. You sure you want that?
These rural state folks coming to the cities and turn it into their rural state. It will kill the economy plus your everything you are enjoying here. You sure you want that?
As the city population ages, these rural state folks are the ones supplying younger generations to this country’s future and driving the economy forward plus everything you are enjoying here now. You sure you want to jeorpardise that?
It is so confusing when both the top and bottom map does not coincide so now which route is correct?
Yes this is all Pakatan fault for nearly dooming this gamechanger project by rerouting thru nearly all the states. If Sabah & Sarawa were a bit closer they would also want to go thru there as well before turning around and finally reaching Selangor after a month long journey. This was how stupid they are.
Not exactly if you did learn about the history that PH did managed to reduce the cost of ECRL however when the Wee guy comes back to transport he managed to revert back to the same alignment even with the same reduced price so why he charge so high in the first place?.
Not really. The purported “reduced cost” was due to PH selling out OUR SOVERIGN RIGHTS ON THIS PROJECT TO CHINA. The reason for high cost was due to changes in the rail ownership and that was under Liow Tiong Lai not Dr Wee yea, and the reason why was under the original plan by Liow it was the Msian Govt that paid the majority of cost while CCCECRL is merely a subcon. Under PH they changed the contract and made CCCECRL put in their money as part of the cost, thereby effective SOLD OUR SOVERIGN RIGHTS ON THIS PROJECT TO CHINA. Now China owns this project they can do whatever they want with it and we cannot stop them, thanks to PH for selling out the country. This will be the same if PH are the ones reviving HSR project. If we hold dear our independence & sovereignty we must kick out PH before they do more permanent damages.
ECRL is not bullet train ke? I thought bullet train. Malu la if not bullet train or if cannot upgrate to bullet train later with this new track. 160km/H is a good upgrade but still far from indonesia Wooshh.
Bullet train is HSR project. ECRL is to kill SG status as trade hub.
Oh ok. Thanks for the explanation. Like that is very good. I feel better now.
May I know what is the new route now? Passing Bentong or Jelebu?