There is no missing link in the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) railway scheme, said the Land Transport Commission (Spad).

The clarification comes after DAP's Damansara Utama assemblyperson Yeo Bee Yin questioned why the link between Gombak and Port Klang is missing from the public display at the commission's headquarters. 

Spad said the display at its headquarters only shows sectors of the project ready for implementation while the Gombak to Port Klang links part of Phase 2 of the ECRL project. 

"When due processes are completed and the extension is ready for execution, Spad will hold a public display of the conditionally approved railway scheme for this alignment prior to execution, as required under the the (Land Transport) Act," it said in a statement. 

It said the current public display is for Phase 1 which covers the 600.3km from the Gombak Integrated Transport Terminal to Wakaf Bharu in Kelantan.

The proposed railway scheme by the Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd has received conditional approval from Spad, it said. 

Yeo yesterday questioned why the Gombak to Port Klang link was not part of the display, given that ECRL has been touted as a means to connect the east coast port of Kuantan with the west coast port of Klang.

This was to enable exporters to bypass Singapore, making it a major land route for trade in and out of Asia. 

"If the Kuantan-Port Klang connection is so important, why is that the Gombak-Port Klang route is not in the public display?" Yeo asked in a statement yesterday. 

She said that when queried, a Spad official told her that the Gombak-Port Klang connection will be built in the second phase of the project.

Yeo demanded the federal government to disclose all studies regarding the ECRL, including feasibility studies conducted by HSS Integrated Sdn Bhd.

She also demanded the government to disclose the financial agreement framework and the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract signed in Beijing on Nov 1 last year, as well as the estimated ridership and ticket prices, and cargo fees needed to make the RM55 billion project economically viable.

HSS Integrated Sdn Bhd completed a feasibility study of the ECRL project in December 2015, and disclosed in its corporate profile and capability statement that the proposed 545km ECRL route that it studied would cost RM29 billion, or approximately RM53.2 million per kilometre.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of the Economic Planning Unit, Abdul Rahman Dahlan, had previously said that there had been three feasibility studies on ECRL since 2007, when the project was first mooted.

The initial cost estimates, he said, had varied between RM30 billion and RM70 billion.