 Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, officially agreed in February 2013 to go ahead and the high-speed rail project was expected to be completed by 2026.Following the victory of Pakatan Harapan in the 2018 Malaysian general elections, then newly-elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced the project will be revised.Among revisions being explored to reduce costs, was to align the route to the existing meter gauge Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) line to allow trains to run at 200 km/h with some upgrades in order to trim travel time to 2 hours and 10 minutes and lay a standard gauge track in parallel, with a fork running to Jurong East so that bilateral agreement is not violated.