Trials for the open toll payment system have commenced at four highways under the ALR Group, namely the Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong (LDP), Sprint Highway, Kesas Highway and Smart Tunnel.
This open toll payment system offers highway users the added choice of using debit or credit cards for payments of toll fares, in addition to the existing modes of payment which are the Touch ‘n Go card, SmartTag, and radio frequency identification (RFID).
LDP, Sprint, Kesas and Smart are among 12 highway operators that have agreed to the implementation of the open toll payment system, and recently the Maju Expressway (MEX) commenced testing of the system earlier this month.
The list of highway concessionaires who have agreed to an open toll payment system includes:
- Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway (DUKE)
- Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP)
- Western Kuala Lumpur Traffic Dispersion Scheme Expressway (SPRINT)
- Shah Alam Expressway (Kesas)
- SMART tunnel
- Maju Expressway (MEX)
- Sungai Besi Expressway
- New Pantai Expressway (NPE)
- Ampang-Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway (Akleh)
- Guthrie Corridor Highway(GCE)
- Penang Bridge
- Butterworth-Kulim Expressway (BKE)
In the future, motorists will have the choice of using any digital mode of payment when the multi-lane fast flow (MLFF) toll system is implemented in 2025, for which the first pilot project will commence on the Sungai Besi Expressway (Besraya) as the first pilot location from end of October, works minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi said in March.
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Expect heavier jam with people fumbling looking for their CC and after scanned, taking their own sweet time to put back to the right pocket in their purse before they deciding to continue their journey.
Can use phone paywave to pay
I hope Touch N’ Go will vanish soon
Ready for bunch of “insufficient balance” in their debit card
Do they accept American Express cards?
I dont think so…
How does this payment (using a debit card) improve heavy congestion at the toll booth?
It doesn’t…coz the number of cars still same.
The process still same (i.e. still have reach out to tap the machine)
And since yer can’t insert your credit card into Smart tag machine…I suppose this only for those Touch n Go lanes.
And a gov popularity move to look like they are against monopoly. What better than something everyone uses on daily basis.
It does. A single transaction takes additional of 3-4 sec using these bank cards vs TnG card. You do the math.
Tell Litrak to add another RFID lane. 1 Lane is horrible if got reverse forward