In accordance with a report by The Straits Instances, Singapore has not obtained a brand new proposal from Malaysia for a high-speed rail (HSR) line between the town state and Kuala Lumpur. This was revealed by Singapore’s performing transport minister Chee Hong Tat in Parliament on Thursday (August 3, 2023).
“Singapore is keen to debate any new proposal for a Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail from Malaysia in good religion, ranging from a clear slate,” Chee mentioned in response to questions from MPs. “We have now not but obtained any new proposal from Malaysia,” he added.
Chee’s feedback got here after Malaysia just lately started looking for proposal to revive the challenge, which was terminated in 2021. In mid-July, MyHSR Company requested idea proposals from native and worldwide corporations for improvement and operation of the KL-SG HSR challenge by means of a public-private partnership mannequin.
Later within the month, it was revealed the acquisition of the KL-SG HSR challenge’s request for info (RFI) paperwork can be prolonged all through the idea proposal stage till November 15, 2023 because of the overwhelming response and requests. As such, events would be capable to buy the RFI paperwork from now till November 15, which is the ultimate date to submit proposals, reviews Bernama.
“So far, near 30 native and worldwide corporations have registered to buy the RFI paperwork,” MyHSR Company mentioned in a press release, including that greater than 700 native and overseas contributors, attended the KL-SG HSR RFI briefing on the ministry of finance in Putrajaya on July 27.
“Along with representatives from Malaysian corporations, the RFI briefing was additionally attended by representatives of business gamers from the UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore,” the corporate famous. Chee mentioned in Parliament that the Singapore authorities should not concerned with the RFI train.
The preliminary KL-SG HSR proposal would cowl 350 km and have seven stations in Malaysia (Bandar Malaysia, Sepang to Putrajaya, Seremban, Ayer Keroh, Muar, Batu Pahat and Iskandar Puteri), with trains stopping at Jurong East in Singapore.
The challenge was first agreed upon by each international locations in 2013, with an settlement to assemble it signed in 2016. Nonetheless, the plan was placed on ice in 2018 after then prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad deemed it an pointless challenge. The KL-SG HSR challenge can be deferred for a number of months till December 2020 earlier than it was terminated totally on January 1, 2021. Malaysia paid Singapore round RM300 million for the termination.
In March this 12 months, transport minister Anthony Loke mentioned the federal government is open to proposals to revive the challenge from personal events which might be technically and financially succesful, and would settle for new mechanisms of funding and implementation for it.
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