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The Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project was announced by the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib in September 2010 and is proposed to connect Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru with Singapore. On 19 February 2013, Singapore and Malaysia had officially agreed to build a high-speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore by 2020 at a meeting between Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak in Singapore. The construction of the railway was expected to start in the third quarter of 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KL-Singapore high speed rail project to start in 2016 )〕 However, an update by the Malaysian Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) now places the commencement of works to be in 2017, with the completion in 2022.〔http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/malaysia-singapore-high-speed-rail-project-to-commence-in-2017〕 ==History== A high-speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore was proposed in the late 1990s, but due to high costs the proposal was shelved. In 2006 YTL Corporation, operator of the KLIA Ekspres in Malaysia, revived the proposal, with a projected speed of 300 km/h (186 mph). This was expected to trim travel time between the two cities to 90 minutes, compared with 4-5 hours by road, 7 hours by conventional rail services,〔 or 3 hours by air (including travel to and from the airports, check-in, boarding and other airport procedures). In 2008 the Malaysian government halted the project citing high-costs of over RM8 billion. The proposal was highlighted in 2010 as a high-impact project, out of the 131 entry-point projects,〔 in the Malaysian government's Economic Transformation Programme Roadmap in a bid to increase economic activities concurrently greater economic synergies. Studies into the feasibility and conceptual details of the proposal were to be carried out in December 2010 and January 2011. It was believed that the Malaysian government was going to sign a high-speed rail deal with China upon the visit of President Hu Jintao of China to Kuala Lumpur in June 2011. The Prime Ministers of Malaysia and Singapore agreed to go ahead with the project at a meeting on 19 February 2013. A committee was tasked with looking into 'the details and modalities' of the project.〔 Singapore and Malaysia have announced that the high speed rail proposal will be finalised by end of 2014 with a targeted completion date at 2020.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Proposed Singapore-KL Rail Link To Be Finalised Next Year: Najib )〕 The proposal for Singapore's link will have to be considered by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Budget 2014. According to the Leaders' Retreat which was held on 7 April 2014, a possible location for the high-speed rail will be Tuas West, Jurong East or the Downtown Core. On 6 February 2015, the Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ministerial Committee for Iskandar Malaysia (JMCIM) released in a press statement stating that Singapore had announced Jurong East as a location for the high-speed rail, but not connected to the MRT station in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Channel Newsasia )〕 Japan and South Korea both have indicated their interests in the project. Similarly, during a state visit by the president of Singapore to France, Singapore's Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew told the press that French firms are keen to participate in the project.〔http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/transport/story/hig%60h-speed-rail-french-firms-keen-project-20150522〕 The LTA and SPAD jointly announced the launch of a "market sensing exercise" on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project on 7 October 2015.〔http://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en/featured-projects/hsr.html〕〔http://www.spad.gov.my/news-events/media-releases/2015/press-release-spad-and-lta-conduct-joint-market-sensing-exercise〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High Speed Rail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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