Ipoh - The Forgotten City

[White_soX]

When is there any annoucement guangzhou-Ipoh..........Ipoh hardly can do KUL-IPH, that's the only schedulr commercial route.

[globocentric]

Originally Posted by White_soX

When is there any annoucement guangzhou-Ipoh..........Ipoh hardly can do KUL-IPH, that's the only schedulr commercial route.

You are right. only one flight a day on that route and MAS cant even sustain it. They incurred losses for that route and will withdraw pretty soon i think. The problem is not whether the runway should be extended, it's whether the airport should be closed down or not as an airport that handles one commercial flight a day is not economically viable

[White_soX]

to say is, Ipoh should open for light aircraft-flying clib, air force, private etc., well, KUL-IPH is not that far apart, perhaps tourists rely on ground transportation to ipoh for scenery, don't wanna miss green malaysian enviroment after come from far away.

[jeeshyan]

Government To Revive Double Tracking Project ?

By Alan Ting

KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 (Bernama) -- The government is expected to revive the multi-billion ringgit double-tracking project for the northern sector in the next few years after it has been deferred in 2003.

The revival of the project has been accepted by the government and was given priority for implementation.

"It has been approved and expected to be announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi soon," a transport industry source told Bernama, Wednesday.

He said the project was part of the master plan to develop the northern region to be the regional hub for the halal food processing centre and there was a need for an efficient rail link for the transportation of products.

"The other consideration for the revival of the project is that the existing double tracking project between Rawang and Ipoh is near completion. Therefore, it is only logical that we extend it," he said, adding the existing single track has limited capacity.

The Ipoh-Rawang stretch costing RM4.6 billion is 82 per cent completed and will be ready in 2007.

"The existing single track has to be shared along with the passenger's train as well as cargo train movements. The frequencies cannot be increased unless you have double track," he said.

In April last year, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said the ministry has forwarded a proposal to revive the double tracking project -- mainly covering the northern portion and not the whole double tracking project as proposed earlier.

He was quoted as saying on April 25 last year that a major portion of the budget allocation for transportation under the Ninth Malaysia Plan would go towards the development of the railways.

In December 2003, the government announced the deferment of the RM14.5 billion electrified double-tracking project, which was earlier jointly awarded to Malaysia Mining Corporation Bhd and Gamuda Bhd.

The deferment affected the northern stretch from Ipoh to Padang Besar and the southern sector from Seremban to Johor Baharu.

-- BERNAMA

[Mosaic]

Where is Ipoh located?.

[TYW]

Originally Posted by Mosaic

Where is Ipoh located?.

Ipoh is located about half way between KL and Penang

[jeeshyan]

Originally Posted by Mosaic

Where is Ipoh located?.

About 150km from Penang and 200km from Kuala Lumpur.

[Pablo]

..U know, i tot that from KL to Ipoh is shorter distance than from Penang to Ipoh

[myf282828]

Originally Posted by globocentric

Where is the market for that flight? If JB cannot sustain international flights, dont even contemplate the prospects of Ipoh doing so

On paper, population in Ipoh is higher than JB. I don't know how many of those have not changed their IC addresses if they are already work outside Ipoh . Nonetheless, Ipoh is quite big and it has high population of Chinese (around 75%) and most of them are cantonese. Hence IPH-Guangzhou may be viable for low cost airliner. For JB, it may be too close to Singapore.

[astrid]

yes its a forgotten city yet don people forgot about Micheal Yeo.
I guess not just ipoh but perak. remember and recall a lot of perakian working around Malaysia and they got pretty good credit and become famous. don forgot our perak Sultan is the best.

[White_soX]

Perak is not forgotten, Perak has lots of nice sceneries especially when you drive along the higway, iirc they have tunnel, rocks, the highway rest area food, the landslide happen ages ago with new highway construct around it-it's all good! And my dad say there is a waterfall if you see properly from the highway.

[myf282828]

View from Meru

[forrestcat]

My kampung is in Ipoh and I would like to say that Ipoh is a nice and tranquil city to live in. It may have not much excitement as KL ,JB or Penang, but the atmosphere in Ipoh is very suitable for students, hence many top students and excellent schools are in Ipoh.

Ipoh will never be forgotten.

I look forward for the Rawang-Ipoh electrified double link railway to finish, it'd be easier and safer to travel to Ipoh more frequently.

[jeeshyan]

Originally Posted by forrestcat

My kampung is in Ipoh and I would like to say that Ipoh is a nice and tranquil city to live in. It may have not much excitement as KL ,JB or Penang, but the atmosphere in Ipoh is very suitable for students, hence many top students and excellent schools are in Ipoh.

Ipoh will never be forgotten.

I look forward for the Rawang-Ipoh electrified double link railway to finish, it'd be easier and safer to travel to Ipoh more frequently.

Yes... Ipoh never be forgotten...

Besides the Rawang-Ipoh Double Track, hope that the AirAsia Ipoh-KL, Ipoh-Kuching, Ipoh-KK, Ipoh-GuangZhou, Ipoh-Medan, Ipoh-HK and etc.. will bring more business opportunities to Ipoh.

[jeeshyan]

Originally Posted by Pablo

..U know, i tot that from KL to Ipoh is shorter distance than from Penang to Ipoh

It is shorter, but if from Pulau Pinang (Georgetown) to Ipoh, may be it need same time with Ipoh-KL.

[Vince]

It saddens me that most pictures taken of cities in Penisula Malaysia appear hazy these days.....air pollution seems to be the norm these days.

[jeeshyan]

Originally Posted by Vince

It saddens me that most pictures taken of cities in Penisula Malaysia appear hazy these days.....air pollution seems to be the norm these days.

Really? Where you take the pictures? Kuala Lumpur or Ipoh?

[Vince]

Originally Posted by jeeshyan

Really? Where you take the pictures? Kuala Lumpur or Ipoh?

Look at the Ipoh photo above. Isn't it hazy? I remember back in the 80s when most cities looked clear even from a great distance.

[jeeshyan]

Originally Posted by Vince

Look at the Ipoh photo above. Isn't it hazy? I remember back in the 80s when most cities looked clear even from a great distance.

Recently the API is higher than the pass... Our air is polluted.

Nowadays is hard to see KLCC twin towers from Jalan Duta PLUS highway.

[nazrey]

Upset over project on green lung
Saturday August 12, 2006


RESIDENTS of Taman Tasek Jaya in Ipoh are upset that their football field has been taken over for the expansion of a surau.

“Without informing us, they bulldozed the trees on the field and started work last week,” said Kooi Nam Sung who led 30 residents to hand over a memorandum on the matter to Datuk Bandar Datuk Mohamad Rafiai Moktar last Tuesday.

The memorandum was received by a council employee.

Kooi, a spokesman for the residents, said they were not against the project but it should not take up the entire field.

Kooi, 54, who has been staying at the housing estate for 30 years, said residents had started a signature campaign to appeal to the state to reconsider.

Ipoh Barat MP M. Kulasegaran, who was also present, questioned the state’s approval of the project because the field was the residents' green lung.

“This is not the first time that open spaces in the city here are being taken over by buildings,” he said, citing Taman Risah in First Garden and Taman Kledang in Jalan Silibin which had been taken over to build a petrol station and supermarket respectively.

State Urban and Local Government Committee chairman Datuk Chang Ko Youn said he would look into the matter.