Originally posted by hiphop2009:
i heard dat a second bridge from west malaysia to penang??....
yes, they're planning to do that within the next 5 yrs, under 9th Malaysia Plan.
they're also going to build monorail in penang. u might not believe, but malaysia manufactures its own monorail systems and rolling stocks. quite impressive. they wanted to call tender for KL Monorel in 1997, but the asian crisis stroke, and by 1998, they decided to go for local builders. Metrail, a subsidiary of Malaysia Mining Company (MMC), was born from its plant at Nilai (very near KLIA), and the Monorel opened in 2001, operator being MTrans.
there are only about 3 monorail manufacturers around in the world (not to be confused with LRT).... one of them is Hitachi, which is doing our Sentosa Express...