Singapore welcomes Malaysia’s decision to proceed with RTS Link
Yahoo News Singapore
Malaysia Transport Minister Anthony Loke explained that Malaysia's proposal will reduce construction costs and result in affordable fares for commuters. The RTS will still serve up to 10,000 passengers per hour. It will be a system that is similar to the Light Rail Transit in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia Transport Minister Anthony Loke explained that Malaysia's proposal will reduce construction costs and result in affordable fares for commuters. The RTS will still serve up to 10,000 passengers per hour. It will be a system that is similar to the Light Rail Transit in Kuala Lumpur.
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Come on, seriously how many singaporeans will actually want to use this to travel to Johor. - yesterday
The $1billion plus extra is supposed to line up somebody’s pocket. - yesterday
"10,000 passengers an hour each way"
9,900 Malaysians, 100 Singaporeans an hour each way - yesterday
dont put words into us! we never welcom rts-link. - yesterday
Our government is running the country like a big company. Singaporeans benefit from this..not even a single cent. Our government is creating many job opportunities from foreigners and Singaporeans how. Just continue to pay and pay. - yesterday
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Don;t be too happy..old man already expressed it clearly that he still favours the crooked bridge and he will likely still put brick wall to delay the project...he only announced this for the sake of the forth coming election. In any case, this link would benefits malaysian more than singaporean... - yesterday
RTS ? If you put this to a referendum, it will fail. Just thinking. - yesterday
Looking forward for increased transport prices. Lose lose situation for people.
(2) If yes, it will be a wrong proposition :-
a. LRT has lesser capacity - it can't transport 10,000 passengers per hour.
b. LRT is light weight and not heavy weight - to transport that large amount of commuters.
c. Maintenance will be a nightmare - as more maintenance and repair will become more frequent causing more disruption to the transport system - and more commuter frustration.
d. LRT is also prove to be less reliable compare to MRT.
e. If in future discover that LRT is not a befitting transport system and need a heavier weight MRT - the retrofitting cost will be phenomenal because :-
- you will need to change the whole track system to support MRT as LRT track cannot support a heavy weight MRT.
- the signaling system need to change.
- the train system need to change
--- and these will be more costly in future.
f. If Malaysia insist on LRT, Singapore side should consider using MRT to land commuters into JB and then hop onto their LRT.
e. If in future their LRT cannot perform - at least Singapore side don't need to upgrade and require additional cost to Singapore - which is also our taxpayer money.
f. Our MRT and LRT wide network density and experience - should come in handy to put forth our suggestion to the Malaysia side.
(2) Moreover, commuters will make a big hoo-haa - when the RTS run into problem in future - if a mis-fit system is used and cannot meet the commuting objective.
1. Compare the no. of carriage of KL LRT vs Singapore MRT.
2. Compare the track system.
3. It defy physics.
Else Singapore woodland mrt cannot be used and need to buy and maintain another set of lrt to jb.
Which don't make sense for us.
also our mrt track will need to connect to a lrt track - how to connect?
RTS will be mainly used by Johoreans 300,000 per day to come into Singapore.
LRT fully pack need to run at 3 min interval to achieve 10,000 people per hour.
Can LRT achieve 3 min interval (including clearing immigration) work?
Math calculation say "humanely impossible" - even if LRT and immigration clearance work at "speed of light".
And even if the LRT can perform miracle to clear 10,000 people per hour - by running 24 hours - the LRT can only clear 240,000 Johoreans per day.
60,000 Johoreans will have to wait 2nd day to travel by LRT.
MRT (mass rapid) can clear 30,000 people per hour and 300,000 people per 10 hour.
So does the proposition of LRT works versus MRT?