Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) targets 1.2 million passengers this year on its third-gen Electric Train Service (ETS3), made up of a daily average of 2,600 between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru, 400 between Johor Bahru and Butterworth, and 400 between Johor Bahru and Padang Besar, Bernama reports. “Starting (December 2025), KTM is operating eight ETS3 services daily, comprising four northbound and four southbound trips. (In 2026), the service will be extended from Johor Bahru to Butterworth and Padang Besar, with two services each, bringing the total to 12 services. “Once the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link (RTS Link) begins operations, we expect more passengers from Singapore to use domestic rail networks such as ETS3 and Komuter services as part of their onward journeys to other cities in Malaysia,” KTM COO Afzar Zakariya said, adding that this could boost the hospitality, retail and services sectors in places like JB, Kluang, Melaka and KL. The 4-km rail link, which connects JB’s Bukit Chagar to Singapore’s Woodlands North, will be plied by driverless trainsets with a max capacity of 10,000 passengers per hour per way. When it is completed in December 2026, it will retire KTM’s Shuttle Tebrau. We still don’t know what will become of the century-old 1.1-km railway line across the Causeway. Compare prices between different insurer providers to save the most on your car insurance renewal compared to other competing services. Many payment method supported and you can pay with instalment using Atome, Grab PayLater or Shopee SPayLater.
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