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Last Friday, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority and Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport said in a joint statement that RTS Operations (RTSO), the operator of the rail link, had informed them of the revised timeline.<\/span><\/p>\n They added that the February 2027 target remains subject to RTSO obtaining independent safety certification and securing final regulatory approvals.<\/span><\/p>\n Singapore’s Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow said in a Facebook post on Friday that the original plan had been for safety certification and licensing to be completed before the end of this year, “but it was not to be”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He said his colleagues at the Land Transport Authority had worked to ensure the Singapore station was ready for the start of cross-border train services, adding: “We aim to start services before Hari Raya next year.”<\/span><\/p>\n Hari Raya Puasa falls on Mar 10 next year.<\/span><\/p>\n The 4km rail link, which will connect Singapore\u2019s Woodlands North station with Bukit Chagar station in Johor Bahru, had been expected to begin service by the end of 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Once operational, the cross-border rail service will have a peak capacity of up to 10,000 passengers per hour in each direction, with the journey between the two stations expected to take about five minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When asked on Thursday on when the exact date of the launch is, Loke said this can only be made clear \u201cafter all the necessary approvals have been obtained\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut in terms of the general timeframe, we are quite confident that it will be around mid-February,\u201d said Loke.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When asked by CNA on whether his recent announcement<\/span> to resign as Malaysia Transport Minister\u00a0<\/span><\/a>would impact the timeline of the RTS Link service launch, Loke stressed that it would not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c(The RTS Link timeline) has nothing to do with my resignation \u2026 It concerns the work done by contractors and the team. We make policy decisions and I act as a spokesman for the project but (my potential resignation) will not impact the timeline,\u201d said Loke.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Loke had resigned from this Cabinet post in protest of former prime minister Najib Razak’s\u00a0<\/span>conditional royal pardon<\/span><\/a>. Loke recently clarified that he and\u00a0<\/span>Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim<\/span><\/a> have agreed it will take effect only when Najib begins his house arrest. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last Friday, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority and Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport said in a joint statement that RTS Operations (RTSO), the operator of the rail…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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