KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 — The proposed Singapore-Kuala Lumpur high-speed rail link will be finalised next year, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said on Twitter today.

“Insya-Allah (God willing), we will be able to finalise the proposed Singapore-KL high-speed rail project next year,” he said in his tweet.

The proposed US$12 billion (RM40 billion) 330km project was announced by the prime minister and his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong in February.

Najib said the project, when completed in 2020, would shorten travelling time between the two cities to just 90 minutes.

It was reported on Sept 18 that although details of the project had not been revealed, Malaysia’s Land Public Transport Commission had said that Malaysia would begin negotiations with Singapore in the coming weeks on the tender process in the second half of next year. — Bernama