00:00The questions still linger in the minds of investors, you know, whenever I talk to investors coming to Johor and Iskandar
00:06around basically the connectivity in Johor itself, basically connecting to the RTS.
00:11And maybe you could share some light really on your thinking around what happens there.
00:16Well, the RTS is designed as a mass transit connecting Johor Bahru to Singapore.
00:23The capacity is 10,000 per direction per hour.
00:27So basically what we need to do and need to overcome is how do we create a system,
00:34a public transport system to support the usage of public transport from Bukit Cina.
00:41It means that we want to discourage people from driving their motorcycles or cars all the way to Johor Bahru.
00:47So they should pick public transport outside of Johor Bahru.
00:51So there are a couple of plans in place.
00:53Of course, right now we have a stage bus system in Johor where the ridership is one of the highest in the country.
00:59We are planning to expand the stage bus services to have more buses on the routes,
01:05to support more areas, to support more routes.
01:08Besides that, of course, I mentioned this now, we are completing our double track project.
01:14So that itself gives us a new railway track.
01:18So that railway track was supposedly designed just for intercity travel between Johor Bahru to KL and Johor Bahru to the East Coast.
01:29What we thought of it is that we really have to track why don't we provide commuter services as well.
01:35So we would like to introduce commuter services just like in KL we have KTM commuter.
01:41We have the commuter services serving the corridor.
01:45Say for example from Kluang all the way to Johor Bahru.
01:48So that is one of the low hanging fruit that we can do.
01:52We already have the track, we just need to procure more train for the commuter services.
01:57Besides that, we are also looking at how to connect between Pasir Gudang to BTP, Port of Tanjung Pelepas.
02:07Currently there is a railway line connecting Pasir Gudang to BTP.
02:11It is a single track but it is quite an old track.
02:15What we are looking at in the medium term is to upgrade that track and possibly to make it as a double track.
02:21So that we can also provide passenger services between Pasir Gudang to BTP.
02:27But there is one area which is very central in that corridor is Kempas.
02:33So Kempas has been earmarked by the Ministry of Transport as one potential growth area.
02:38So we have a big train station there and there is a piece of land where we want to develop into TOD.
02:45So that can become an interchange between people who are living in the Pasir Gudang area to travel to Johor Bahru via Kempas.
02:54So that is also in the pipeline.
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