East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) Expected to be Completed on Schedule

The Transport Ministry is confident that the East Coast Rail Link ( ECRL ) will be completed on schedule in December 2026 and will be operational from January 2027, with a four-hour travel time between Kota Bharu and Kuala Lumpur compared with a seven-hour car journey. Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook also reported a 64 per cent construction progress of the line as at March 2024 with the line traversing four states: Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang and Selangor.

"The ECRL project has entered a new construction phase since 2023 with infrastructure works to include the installation of flyover beams, track installation, and the construction of stations and railway depots,” he said at the Ramadan 2024 breaking of fast event with employees from the Transport Ministry and ECRL project stakeholders here today. "There are more than 1,900 work sites and almost 650 are active along this 665-kilometre (km) national infrastructure project," Loke sai

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