In a bid to further ease traffic at toll plazas throughout the country, the Malaysian Highway Authority (MHA) has confirmed that 10 more toll plazas will adopt the new cashless transaction strategy beginning January 13, 2016.
A new report by The Star confirmed that the affected toll plazas are located along the Maju Expressway (MEX), New Pantai Expressway (NPE), Cheras-Kajang Highway (Grand Saga) and the Kemuning Shah Alam Expressway (LKSA).
Specifically, the toll plazas include:
- Salak Selatan (MEX)
- Putrajaya (MEX)
- Seri Kembangan (MEX)
- PJS2 (NPE)
- PJS5 (NPE)
- Pantai Dalam (NPE)
- Batu 9 (Grand Saga)
- Batu 11 (Grand Saga)
- Seri Muda (LKSA)
- Alam Impian (LKSA)
The news report also mentioned that in order to ease the transition from cashless to full-electronic payments at the toll plazas, highway operators will provide 24-hour Touch ’n Go sales and make sure that its staff is present to help road users.
In the future, do expect more toll plazas to adopt the electronic payment-only system, with PLUS already confirming that all 92 of its plazas will make the switch before the end of 2017. Of the 92, 14 have already been converted to the electronic toll collection (ETC) system. Further down the road, PLUS is set to implement an RFID gateless gantry toll system starting in 2018.
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The MEX Salak Selatan toll plaza has got only one lane for SmartTag (for direction out from KL), during peak hour it is much faster to use touch&Go than this. They can’t even get basic thing right.
the crony companies running Touch and Go untung. Just on interest alone, they make millions per day because consumers have refilled RM50 in their cards. They hold hundreds of millions and interest alone works out to few million per day
this is how crony works. Lie to the people it is cashless and faster flow of traffic but in actual fact mau untung from the bunga
same as Bentong…
they should abolish toll plaza to improve traffic congestion, not to go cashless
ok good.
When i saw cashless i thought yay no more tolls. Wishful thinking i guess
Lol I thought it was going to be free too. By the way anyone knows what the heck is BET? A lane to buy 4d?
its for buses
Good effort. I have already seen the impact of going cashless at some tolls, traffic transition is much smoother now. I hope people don’t bash this positive effort, because objectively it is a good thing. We shouldn’t complain that the country is not progressing when we ourselves can’t even embrace simple steps like this
Country progressing?
U been to Singapore recently? How many tens of years ago their toll system dont even need you to slow down….
Cronies here cronies there BN won’t stop monopoly the industry continues to fools and lie IF Rakyat never stop them…. Time for change Rakyat !!!
err..I thought 10 toll plaza to GO FREE … Fad hopes in our Bolehland..
Saya tak setuju dengan pelaksanaan ini. Pastikan masih ada alternatif pembayaran secara tunai. Sebab bukan semua orang mampu untuk sentiasa ada nilai dalam kad TnG. Bagi pilihan bagi penggunakan menentukan disposable income mereka boleh digunakan secara maksimum.
Cth: jika seorang yang tak mampu… dia tak perlu mengisi kad mereka sebab ada pilihan jalan selain tol. Mungkin ada bulan lain..mereka ada lebih pendapatan … mereka boleh melalui jalan tol dan bayar bila perlu. Contoh mereka hanya perlukan 4 ringgit shj (cth melalui BESRAYA pergi & balik) jadi masih ada disposable income rm16 yg boleh digunakan. Perkara ini tidak akan berlaku jika min rm20 bg tng maka dia akan kehilangan rm16 yg mungkin utk anak ke sekolah atau beli alatan tulis atau isteri memdaftar rawatan anak di klinik kesihatan.
Jika tak cukup wang, ada banyak alternatif, misalnya bus, motor, lrt. Kenapa buat sendiri susah jika tak mampu bayar tol? Ada lagi wang pakir, cukai jalan, minyak dll. Jimat wang untuk makan kangkung lebih baik.
Itu yang kita bincangkan alternatif. Bukan paksaan. Bukan tiada wang..tapi ada keperluan yang lebih penting. Sebab itu adalah levih baik juga jika tiada tol sebab cukai jalan telah dikutip…petrol telah tiada subsidi. Di mana lagi kita mahu lari?
Tuan masih ingat kerajaan sarankan tiada pekerja di stesen minyak? Keadaan ini berlaku sekejap sahaja dan sekarang kita melihat semakin ramai petugas bekerja bagi setiap 2 tiang di stesen minyak. Ada kemungkinan jika sistem ‘cashless’ tidak efektif nanti jurutol akan kembali bertugas semula. Its about try and error.
Saya ingat. Dan pelik bila di KL kena tuang sendiri. Tp bila balik pantai timur ada orang tuangkan. Tp jika nak dibandingkan 2 perkara ino adalah jauh. Cashless ni melibatkan pengguna. Pam minyak hanya stesen shj yang terpaksa tanggung.
Tp jika kita ikut lagi logik… sepatutnya tol akan murah rm0.50 sebab tiada lagi keperluan bayar gaji petugas tol. Sistem telah sedia ada. Jika ini permintaan ramai… ada brani sykt tol nak buat cashless?
Saya setuju dengan Susukotak! Cara bayaran tunai patut diteruskan. Bukan hak syarikat tol dalam menentukan cara bayaran!
Cash should be the default payment method. If they cant provide cash facility, close shop la. Tutup tol terus flow trafik lagi smooth.
1. When you have it cashless, please demolish the cash booths so that can have more lanes for payment.
2. Please have proper guideways to get to the correct payment lane. The toll plaza is so wide, people are confused where to go and there are people who speed all the way right uptill the toll gantry. Please be considerate. Not everybody use that toll everyday. Some people are not sure where to go and then end up like the Camry at LDP toll.
3. Please put the guideways in proper precedence. A bad example is SMART toll plaza before. The T&G and Smart TAG lane merge into one lane. But the cash lane has 2 lanes before merging into the T&G and Smart TAG lane. This causes the T&G and Smart TAG lane to be so long and slow. What is the point of using the electronic method then? Sometimes, I just use the cash lane but pay with T&G and is much faster.
4. Please put and distribute the lanes more evenly. Sometimes you come out of the highway at the exit and you have to cut across 8,9,10 lanes to the SMART TAG lane and the other side doing the opposite to the cash or T&G lane.
Seriously, these people don’t use the highways they build? This is cow sense and absolutely fundamental observation. You do not need professional consultants to propose this kind of things. Hire so many people to sit there and collect toll and dispense tickets. For what? Dispense ticket can be done automatically like any car park in malls nowadays. This is a retarded job and has no economic value.
SMART TAG lane is all good until someone gets stuck at the gantry for unknown reasons?
Heavy tint? Weak battery? Insufficient funds? Masuk wrong lane? Drive too fast?
Also seen many cars tailgating to avoid paying tolls…
Apa macam? ?
Simple… see Singapore’s ERP? NO battery? Not enough funds? etc? Well too bad.. its YOUR responsibility to make sure it works. Fine incoming…
Guys just use TnG lanes, forget the smart tag lanes, every 3 cars it will fail, and please lah enable that the failed smart tag and immediately tag their TnG card and pass.
Not have to wait for tulan face attendant to come and release.
Going cashless does not solve jams becoz many tolls from 10 lanes become 2 -3 lanes still the same…some tolls the Smarttag and Tngo lanes actually wait longer vs cash lane example NPE Sunway…NKVE Subang and Damansara