Malayan Railway‘s (KTM) Electrical Prepare Service (ETS) is lastly set to go all the best way to Johor Bahru (JB) from December, with the RM8.9 billion Gemas-JB electrified double-tracking venture anticipated to complete by end-November, The Star studies. This offers the ETS entry to KTM’s whole West Coast Line.
“A complete of 12 ETS journeys will likely be provided day by day underneath the total service schedule – eight journeys on the Kuala Lumpur-Johor Bahru route, two on the Johor Bahru-Large Area route, and two on the Johor Bahru-Butterworth route,” Johor works, transportation, infrastructure and communication committee chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh mentioned in response to Kemelah MP N. Saraswati’s question throughout immediately’s state meeting assembly.
The ETS reached Segamat on March 15 and Kluang on August 30 – the latter proved so common that KTM had so as to add two new weekend providers starting October 10. As of September 28, the Kluang ETS has conveyed 10,873 passengers – almost 60% of them on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
After all, it was as soon as doable to journey all the best way from KL to Singapore’s Tanjong Pagar on one practice (an expertise I’m fortunate sufficient to have had), but it surely took seven hours. The ETS would be capable of get you from KL to JB in half that point; you’ll be able to then, starting 2027, jump over to Singapore through the four-kilometre RTS Hyperlink. With the retirement of KTM’s Tebrau Shuttlewhat’s going to then turn out to be of the century-old kilometre-long railway line throughout the Causeway?
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