Why Malaysian government did not build a bridge from the Peninsular to the Borneo?
It’s purely to do with the costs involved. According to wikipedia the longest bridge in the world is the The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in America. That bridge is 23 miles long (38 km) and it cost $30million US more than 50 years ago and the distance between east and west Malaysia is 500 miles (800 km) At nearly 1 million American dollars per mile the bridge would cost more than $500million US, which is approximately Rm1,500million, or 1 thousand 500 Million ringgits. It would take investors hundreds of years to see any sort of financial returns on their money, which clearly isn’t going to happen..
