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  Mega Transport Projects and Politics: East Coast Rail Link, Malaysia

  The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) qualifies as a Mega Transport Project (MTP) since its original contract sum was a hefty RM65.5 Billion. This paper attempts to explore if the decision-making criteria adhered to “iron triangle law” at the early project appraisal stage, and also the related “cost-benefit analysis”. Often, the “iron triangle” criteria is hardly applied by decision-makers in this special MTP class as they have to contend with social and economic benefits which are not easily quantifiable. Politics and political preferences tend to come into the play of decision-makers, consequently sidelining technical analysis.

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