JOHOR BARU: Malaysia and Singapore will make the decision on the Malaysia-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) link project next year.
9 x: M; G6 o _" |/ l. atvb now,tvbnow,bttvb Iskandar Regional Development Authority (Irda) chief executive officer Datuk Ismail Ibrahim said authorities in both countries were currently undertaking a phase one joint-engineering study.
9 s' A4 ^/ s. {, W+ Y r. j* _, Gos.tvboxnow.com He said the study, among others, looked into the various alignments, customs, immigration and quarantine-related matters and multimodal terminal locations and other critical perimeters.
8 H1 n/ ]: M3 R( Hos.tvboxnow.com  Ismail: ‘The final outcome on what kind of link will be built will all depend on the recommendations of the study.’ TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 F5 f7 g! C; j% s1 |
“Once it is completed, both governments will make a decision on the preferred alignments,'' Ismail told StarBiz yesterday.6 [# w( g7 s4 Z( v! b' Q
He said there would probably be two options for the RTS project linking Johor Baru and Singapore for the trains to run above ground (grate) or via undersea tunnel.
+ ?' H# J3 U4 h! A- x ? Ismail said if the latter was chosen for the project, there would also be a choice on whether there it would be a sunken tunnel or a bore tunnel.4 ?& a/ _; J: ^' T6 `0 p
He said the undersea tunnel was more favourable as it would have minimal disruptions to the traffic movements during construction period as the project would be located nearby to the CIQ complexes of Malaysia and Singapore.- P: @2 c3 r6 G* `# a; s
“The final outcome on what kind of link will be built will all depend on the recommendations of the study for the consideration of the two governments involved as well as costing,'' added Ismail.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 _7 m: c% W4 c+ M2 e S6 }
In May this year, Malaysia and Singapore had announced that both countries would undertake a project to improve connectivity by opening a RTS from Singapore to Johor Baru by 2018.os.tvboxnow.com2 p3 I' _/ X4 r" F8 \& J5 Y
The joint Singapore-Malaysia statement said that the terminating stations of the link would be in the city of JB Sentral here and in the vicinity of Republic Polytechnic in Singapore.
0 [1 j/ R+ f+ @) ^0 }( PTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 It added that the RTS link was targeted to be up and operating by 2018 and have a co-located (CIQ) facility in Singapore and co-located CIQ facility here so that commuters need to clear immigration only once for each way of travel.
' K/ S( v) b, f Separately, Ismail said the implementation of the intercity rail project in Iskandar Malaysia was still being evaluated to ensure the feasibility of the project.
4 Y$ w' u- D+ P5 T5 m: bTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 He said so far, two parties had submitted their proposals.
4 B9 c+ F. i5 ?; a7 t However, more details were needed before a firm decision could be made.
" ^' R/ d' h* i6 a+ p( I) j( ~. G; ]0 MTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 “Nevertheless, Irda noted the high implementation cost for the project while coverage is somewhat limited compared with other public transport system,'' said Ismail.
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