Singapore, Malaysia flag high speed rail
Singapore and Malaysia have announced plans for a high-speed rail link, with a target completion date of 2020.
The link would reduce travel time between Singapore and the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to 90 minutes.
Trains currently take about six hours to make the 300km journey between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. By road, the journey takes about four hours.
Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak pointed to the Eurostar link between Paris and London, which transformed “two European cities into one virtual urban community” as a model for the KL-SG link.
Leaders of the two nations said that the move would boost business ties and increase trade.
No cost was given for the project, to be built by private companies.
Ian Jarrett
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