Yes, beginning April 2010, get ready for a 140 km/h speed train to shorten the journeying time from Ipoh to Kuala Lumpur.The first of five sets of the six-car electric train had arrived on Dec 3 from South Korea. When deployed on the tracks, this comfortable electric train will take you from Ipoh to Seremban in less than 2 hours (1 hour 55 minutes estimated time). It takes about 3 hours now. The day of drudgery on trains will be gone from this stretch from then on.
The five sets of train cost RM240 million and each train has a capacity of 350 seats.
I am looking forward for this to happen. If the schedule works for me, it means an option is now open for me to perhaps relocate to Ipoh or Seremban when rents are cheaper and cost of living lower so that I can stretch further the ever shrinking ringgit, no thanks to the government.
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