And despite the reduction of 80km and avoiding a reversal, these trains are only sped up by 1 hour. So the net result is that SBC still has trains taking more or less the same time as they were taking earlier, with no increase in frequency, while the stations on the SBC-MYS-HAS and SBC-ASK-HAS routes lose their connectivity to both SBC and MAQ.
And here we have politicians celebrating and thanking the government on the 'invaluable' development. One has to wonder, its becoming easier to fool people, with everyone from the top brass officials to local street politicians stuck in such an easy-going system.