Quik News 2017

Friday, 28th July 2017 KUALA LUMPUR: The SPAD engineers have claimed the difficulties during early stage, land acquisition project tooks a long time in solving the issues. “The MRT project started [in] 2011, [the] total takes 6 years long for this whole project.” stated by Syazwan Faris bin Shamsudin, engineer of rail division in SPAD. In the statement, The SPAD discussed about the difficulty before the construction due to land position and also the sensitive area which is personal land, housing area and also kuil. They also stated the accident happened at Kwasa Damansara, structure hitted 3 foreign workers during construction thus it’s one of the factor that causing the progress of MRT project slowed down. The total budget of this project including the construction and land acquisition, it costed RM21 Billion, but the government announced there’s RM2 Billion saving in this project.   “Our objective of this project is to deliver the passengers by using more effici

Tuesday, 1st August 2017. KL SENTRAL: The operators of KTM have told about the KVDT project for the future plan, now is going in the first phase. “Kita tidak ada duduk diam, kita pun ada project sendiri untuk KTM demi masa hadapan,” stated by Zakaria Bin Ahmad, a Marketing officer of KTM. In the statement, the operators of KTM have discussed the future plan for Komuter Line. Klang Valley Double Tracking (KVDT) is a project that already existed at 1995. The purpose of KVDT project is to upgrade into the new track and make it faster from 90km/h to 140km/h. KVDT project has three phases so far yet, which is the first phase is Senawang to Salak Selatan, the second phase is Kuala Lumpur to Pelabuhan Klang and the third phase is Kuala Lumpur to Seremban. The first phase of this rehabilitation of KVDT project was officially started in August 2016. They also mentioned that the number of passengers has increased when this project launching the new train at 2010, from