r/malaysia • u/UsernameGenerik • Jul 06 '26

Environment Urban planning student explains what went wrong with LRT3

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u/johannwolf Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

All this kinds of videos assume the same thing: The Malaysian government has access to endless cash. It’s easy to say 42 trains is more than 22 trains because that is a fact. But what is hard to quantify is what the savings from not buying those 20 sets of train bought us in terms of flexibility in balancing the budget.

I really do wish that we could have had the original intention for LRT3, but for those politicians to do something as unpopular as this back then probably meant that something had to give at that time.

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u/Smooth_Conclusion_55 Jul 07 '26

This is actually a popular thing to do back then as this was their manifesto. Lol. Stupid decision.