Singaporeans hail Dr Mahathir for doing them a favour by scrapping HSR

Updated 8 years ago · Published on 30 May 2018 12:30PM · 4 Comments

SINGAPOREANS have heaped praise on Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad for pulling out of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project, The Independent reports. 

Many took to social media to applaud the move; some even urged Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong to show the same boldness and scrap the Changi Airport Terminal 5 project. 

Comments on the news portal’s Facebook page see many Singaporeans asking for the Changi airport project to be scrapped along with the HSR. 

“Desperate times calls for desperate measures, it is at times like this Singapore government should be more understanding and supportive towards Malaysia, understand their situation, perhaps one day in the near future, this will be a reality. 

“Going forth LHL should also scrap the idea of building Terminal 5, this is an unnecessary burden on the citizens,” Jan Singh posted.

Roger S.S. Lim thanked Dr Mahathir on behalf of Singaporeans whose views were not taken into account in the construction of the HSR.

“Thank you Tun for doing us Singaporeans the favour. Only you are able to abolish the HSR agreement for us.  We Singaporeans were never consulted and we do not need the HSR”.

On Monday, Dr Mahathir announced Malaysia was scrapping the HSR, even at the cost of having to pay RM500 million to terminate the agreement,  as it was “not a beneficial project”. – May 30, 2018.

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  • A possible financial disaster will befallen on Malaysia if the HSR project is given the go ahead. This is foreseen by the new Malaysian PM Tun Dr Mahathir.

    Now, why didn't all the highly paid and highly qualified ministers foresee the same? Why the PM went ahead to endorse the agreement? He did not know the project was out of reach of the Malaysian government given the financial state Malaysia was in?

    Posted 8 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

    • What was LHL thinking?

      Posted 8 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • HSR in name-sake is good for a nation moving towards a developed status but is a huge money loser. Taiwan's HSR, Taipei-Kaohsiung which is roughly the same distance as KL-Singapore, is already 12 years in operations and has been in the red all these years, yes, making losses, despite high ticket prices. It has still not able to meet the projected passenger trips when it was first proposed. And to make things worse the project was delayed for 6 years due to signaling and safety issues. The Taiwanese government had to inject funds into the HSR company to keep it afloat.

    Posted 8 years ago by Malaysia Forward · Reply

  • Even at the cost of having to pay RM500 million to terminate the agreement ?? What RM500 million is okay?? Of course lah Singaporeans HAPPY !!! Dr M should make Msians happy NOT Singaporeans !!!

    Posted 7 years ago by Mohd Nordin · Reply