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a big waste. they should hav KL-Penang Express Rail Link....and KL-Kuantan Express Kereta lembu Link....

50 years gone by a convenient railway doesn't exist along the East coast, let alone from West to East. Thank God there's the express buses at least. Our railway system is pre-war prestige!. Who else to blame but the silly buggers who spend money on useless schemes not benefitting the majority rakyat!. I weep!.

Those days all development projects are based on cost-benefit.

But nowadays, its a means to justify to distribute MONEY to all and sundry.

They resurface on good surface roads but when are they going to repair the pot-holed Alor Gajah - Pagoh (PLUS Highway) stretch and the FRIM-Hospital Selayang stretch ...

Maybe it is a good idea. They should connect directly from Klang Port to Kuantan Port . Bye Bye Singapore . Let have a high speed good railway moving containers from Klang to Kuantan. Maybe we can have the longest railway underground tunnel, too.

And maybe Genting can contribute to have second kink direct to the Genting highland.

It is a good idea. I support!!

Emm...

The budget $$$ must be swapped from the 9MP budget on the Military Weapons purchase returned from Perak.

Is the 9th time to prepare for our 5-years-plan’s budget. The late PM Tun Abdul Razak do explained to the Chairman of China during his visits there in year 1975. Had clarified that we are not tiru siapa sama siapa, just coincidently the Chinese Communist Party also had initiated the similar 5-years-plan for the development of their communist country too at that instance.

Ever since our new PM took over as the CEO of our country, the major constructional development has never go through proper planning our getting the board of director approvals. Just like the construction of our Betong(Perak) to Jeli(Kelantan) Highway, plan as you go kind of style.

For such a high spending development is not included in the 9MP, but were suddenly initiated and suddenly from somewhere. No need to project for the constructional budget.

I think is must not be Pak Lah’s fault, is the pegawai in charge, has not thoroughly studied or totally missed out for CEO to table it in our Parliament for approvals.

Maybe he must be watching too many P.Ramlee movies. Tiru-macam-saya lah.

150KM/h is fast? They should've made it like 300KM/h >.

How I wish there's a bullet train from Penang -> Ipoh -> KL -> Melaka -> JB.

The project of linking Kuala Lumpur - Mentakab - Kuantan is half truth. There is a completed proposal study linking Mentakab - Kuantan which may be extended to Kerteh - Kuala Terengganu. The possibility of linking Mentakab to Kuala Lumpur may not be that feasible looking into the rough terrain of Banjaran Titiwangsa where tunneling may not be the best option.

The feasibility study was first undertaken by foreign expertise when the present Governor of Malacca was the Chief Minister of Pahang. In fact, there was a proposed alignment. However the study stucks at the feasibility stage due to high project cost compared to the low returns.
Of course, the idea will be floated once in a while to wet the appetites of hungry Contractors and entrepreneurs as well as to raise false hopes to the population. This is more of a political ploy and trying to take advantage of the new King who hails from Terengganu with the DPM from the state of Pahang. Incidentally, the PM is (was?) the UMNO political chief of Terengganu who may like to promote Monsoon cup via railway links.
So back to the original content, the viable route shall be Kuala Lumpur-Gemas-Mentakab-Kuantan-(Kerteh-Kuala Terengganu). So u figure out the distance and see whether it is feasible or not....
Till then...G'nite M'sia...wherever u are...

i am sceptical la. these goons can't even implement proper bus service and they want to try fast train now? mr. watanabe, tak berani la gua mau caya sama gomen implement keretapi 300km/h. they should stick to bloody basics and make sure the bus companies don't cock up. what is 3 odd hours la for KL-Kuantan? cheaper by bus some more. no need all this bollocks. another money making scheme. who did the contract go to? i won't be surprised if some sdn bhd keropok company managed to bid and win the contract. boleh, boleh dan misti boleh punya!

How much improvement have we had from what the "evil" colonial rulers left us with in rail infrastructure? Considering we have lived in the years of plenty over the last 50 years with the latest in technology, the cruel colonialists with brutal slave like labour left us a rail legacy that has hardly been improved upon by independent Malaysia. Indeed our leaders have only looked upon this particular legacy for providing reasons to enrich themselves. We should have been able to do the double tracking for the entire net-work in a fraction of the time that it took the clonialists to provide the infrastructure they left us with...And now they want to run a KL-Kuantan line pula!..Wouldn't they Colonialists have put that line up then if they had found it necssary or viable then?

Imagine the thing running at 300km/h, then suddenly a major crash because a section of the track has been stolen by some thieves (just like what they do with water meters, copper wires from TNB sub-stations, ....).

I was in Singapore during the Christmas period & was astounded to see these things :
1) ATM everywhere (MRT stations, shopping centres, HDB flats,...) which are operating fulltime (no breakdown & with cash).
2) plasma screens in public areas (eg, entrance to Orchard MRT station).

If they do such things in Malaysia, both items would have been stolen in no-time. Sad.

I don't see why people are so against the idea, what with reasons that it'd fail because train tracks would be stolen, and that the British didn't think of it earlier. Then is then, now is now, and in my opinion, it's not a bad idea.

'sides, one to one-and-a-half hours on a train is pretty decent actually, though I don't think we have the infrastructure for high-speed rail systems just yet. I took a train from Melbourne to Sydney a few months back, and I wish it travelled at 120km/h at least, instead of the 13 hours it took to get to my destination.

JEFF OOI says: What has gone wrong to the intelligence of my dear readers? You guys are barking at the wrong tree. In the absence of project details, why should one pre-judge as if the KL-Kuantan ERL isn't good for national economy? The context here is: ( 1 ) What's the leading ministry in charge of railway saying? ( 2 ) Who are the political know-who involved? ( 3 ) Where's the feasibility study and what's the cost and funding mechanism? You missed all this shouting your lungs out and squabble over potential metal thefts? Putrajaya KNOWS you guys will surely miss this!