Malaysia's ECRL: High-Speed Dream or Expensive Nightmare? 

This is ECRL....electric medium speed train 160km per hr not HSR.....other transport alternative for east coast people which will reduce time from 7hrs to 4 hrs & even worst during festive season wll reached 14 hrs for nearly 1 million road users to the east coast & will benefit Kuantan port with the cargo train from east to west & vise versa bypass the southern route....

ECRL is a land bridge between the South China Sea and the Malacca Straits.

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There will be more indirect benefits to the country. Less traffic jam, less road accidents, fast mobility of goods & to spur the tourism sectors in East Coast. Wrong…we do not expect HSR for ECRL. The planning is for goods movement to contribute 70% of the revenue.

The moment i know it has station in Puncak Alam (now full with residents) Gombak (LRT connection) , Serendah (genting Tunnel, bus feeder to Genting) and Cherating, i know it will generate Money from local east coast origin celebrant, local and foreign tourist to Genting and Cherating and KL worker who lives within these 3 area. Ppl who say otherwise never suffer driving to east coast, genting or live in Puncak Alam and work in KL

To those that think the ECRL "is an expensive nightmare" knows nothing about the states the train were intended to cover ! It'll open up this corridor to more business going forward. Also it greatly mitigate the many many hours lost taking the land route from KL (Kuala Lumpur) the capital to the East coast states ( Kelantan, Trengganu & Pahang) for every major festival. This project went through many "start, stop, start & stop again !" after many feasible studies on it & eventually the project were given the go ahead. The train not only carry passengers but also cargoes/goods, to carry cargoes from the West coast to the East coast Malaysia, it can take bulk cargoes from shipping in the Malacca Strait across to the south China sea on the East coast of Malaysia whereby shipping need not travel all through the narrow Malacca Strait !

It already has. In my town alone there have been dozens of property transactions being the spillover effects for being located nearby the ECRL station. Thanks to the ECRL, there are already plans to build 2 private specialist hospitals by the private sector, something that was once unthinkable a decade ago. Recently the CCCC a PRC investment arm company have just secured a long term lease with a local public listed company to lease and develop a new AI operated port in Port Dickson to utilise what ECRL has to offer.

Cargo can be moved in short period of time in less than 5 hrs.transferring goods frm malacca straits to south china sea.can bypass significant importance of singapore ports.

At 670km, it is necessary for development for malay heartland. Furthermore, looking at overview it will link to China yunnan via Laos. Passing through thailand as a good neighbour.

If kelantan and Trengganu want to move forward and develop, they must take this opportunity....not just look and doing nothing...tourism is important for these part of region.

There is a need for this ECRL.. it is not for showing off but to overcome the problems of transportation in Malaysia. HSR will be too expensive for the government and the consumers.

Asset must be effectively manage , on time , sync good spirit to service.

If you imply that this link can by-pass whatever Singapore is doing, you must come from Mars! This rail link has high hope to help Kelantan and Terengganu to develop, this will take decades. Its only hope is to see if it can divert the volume of Southern -east coast province's volume, which currently is trucked down to Penang port, through this link! More over, if the management is done locally, wouldn't it be just another KTMB?

Nothing much change. We local company Malaysian can't afford to make our own railways. So we need help from other large country to build and participate. Just look back to our first railway that was build back then by the British and Japanese to transport the resources. Now the railway benefits so much to us for transportation. Just like this new project.

ECRL is a must to connect east coast and west coast part of Peninsular Malaysia. However, HSR KL to Singapore is questionable because now KTM have develop ETS from KL to JB and JB also will have RTS to Woodlands, Singapore.

malaysian need moden train system into east coast region. ECRL definitely the answer. we do not need high speed rail like jakarta bandung. we need rail transport our cargo, people and our cows and kambing to be sold in kota bahru market. we do not need others told us what to do with our own rail system. if you thinking about making money, give us name where's in the world the train company making a lot of money? looking forward to our ECRL trains. let get there slowly, safely and more economic, valuable to our malaysian

ECRL are basically ETS but for west cost of Peninsula Malaysia (kelantan teremgganu pahang). This is essentially needed to boost the economy. HSR meanwhile..... Probably taking a flight from kul to Singapore are cheaper. Edited - not east Malaysia but west coast peninsula Update - Yes, Flight from KUL to SG are cheap. AirAsia offer RM69/one-way

Malaysia is on the right track . Cheers !

Its a good project, now i can go to east coast easily for work..

about hsr we agree if singapore can buy more that 60% and malaysia just pay just 40% which mean the asset will be malaysia or singapura

ECRL just another new rail line for Malaysia. If its too politicised then Malaysia has actually nothing development to do than just proud with what British left to this country, the KTM. This line and later another lines throughout the peninsula n borneo just need to be constructed without too much havoc n over discussion. Hopefully it's really a game changer to the country at least.

Malay should consider to coorperate with china build HSR like Indo, As ASEAN country we should rise together, Malay - Singapore - Indo should conect with HSR. it will bring so much economical advantage

Tbh the decision MRL made for ECRL to be operated at 160km/hr is better than at higher speed as this will increase the construction and operation cost which resulted in higher ticket price. Plus, this also ensure that the project does not fall within the China Debt Trap Scheme.

Not HSR, please do your research before writing. Malaysia did this rail connection.

Wherever you build a grand project it sure is a dream for those who benefit from it and nitemare for those who dont. Remember you arent the only ones clamouring for a better life, so is most of everyone else. So get over it.

about ecrl we believe so many people will use it to reduce the numbers of car that already make road jammed so bad and the cost of ticket what i expect is not expensive so much its just more that ets ticket yeahh about 50 to 80 ringgit is good but if 80 to 12o is still good for one destination that far wth the convinion they give like services

Malaysia needs more roads travel then HSR high cost and reach more interest place from north to south just 800km.

This man is confused. ECRL is not high speed but medium speed. There is no sound economic analysis but vague talk of benefits. Prof Jomo has said this line will not even make an operating profit, not to mention paying down capital investment. Taxpayers will foot every single cent of the RM65 billion.

Long term benefit project for the future Malaysia.

This ECRL is necessary. No need to question something that is way overdue for the people of the East Coast of Malaysia. Also, very bad research on this. ECRL does not have much of an impact on Malaysia's economic future. Its to modernize the network. The East Coast of Malaysia is not much of an economic corroridor.

Jgn memaksakan sesuatu karna gengsi tinggi...bukan membuat kereta cepat aja yg di pikirkan tapi penumpangnya juga di perhitungkan..kalau minim penumpang bakalan bangkrut, kereta cepat biaya oprasinya mahal...

ecrl railway line is long travel of line across several states unlike Indonesia kcic which is only now from Jakarta to Bandung which is very short for fast speed train..

It links port klang to kuantan port. Similar to mexico's Pacific Atlantic rail Road.

From western's view, developing country does not deserve development, better poor forever. All are risks and trapps, no hope...

My answer is that it will not propel my country into a high income nation.

HSR not viable anywhere unless the population exceeds 200 million, I believe so.Taking a plane is cheaper. The only thing that I am not happy is the 22 km distance to Kuala Terengganu against 10 km to the airport. Flying is a better option for me. Kuala Terengganu is a tourist hot spot. Yes, development to the rural areas but could have made it 10km nearer.

I don’t understand why do you raise these questions now? They should have been looked into and analyzed early on during the feasibility phase.

This ECRL project more to transport cargo/good not people HSR Indonesia for transport people that make different admin..

It is only single track. No doubt, more billions will be spent a second time to double track it in the future. Having said that, KTM does not run many trains a day, even on their double tracks in the west coast.

as an indonesian, the biggest hurdle of the HSR is politics

ECRL 160KM PERHOUR NOT HIGH SPEED TRAIN 360KM....HIGH SPEED TRAIN IS KL TO SINGAPORE 360KM PERHOUR START 2028..

"ECRL" is a misnomer. It should be renamed "East-West Rail Link" or "EWRL".

Clearly its an expensive nightmare for the people of malaysia huhuhu

0:46 this is japan ,japan is rich about culture ,village , agriculture,technology and also tourism

At least with ECRL, we have the infrastructure for the rakyat to use, rather than all the billions stashed into private offshore accounts of those named listed in the pandora papers, that was all the money siphoned away by our elite umnoputra politicians.

ECL is long long overdue. Get it done.

Class Facility requires Class Mentality.

As for high speed train, there's no way Malaysia can buy Japanese Bullet train, it's too expensive. HSR is cost 50 Billion dollar

Ecrl is not high speed train. Just 130km speed which half fast than normal ktm 110km speed train.

Hsr is a private project, not gov.

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It is just similar to kra landbridge proposed by thailand but on steroids.

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It's better not be an expensive nightmare! I don't want to pay for it the rest of my life!

Can wear short pants on board ka?

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Cargo train don't needs high speed 350km per hour more dock in port short time travel from mallaca strait to south chinese sea.

Monkey from pakatan @ 22 month stop the project and pay rm321 million to Singapore...and now..kakaka