Works minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi has said that the Malaysian government should not abolish toll collection on highways, in an excerpt of an interview broadcast by BFM Radio on X.
“There are some views out there that say “we should abolish tolls”. But I don’t think we should abolish tolls. I hope it can be understood. I am not saying [the government] is not caring enough for the people by [not] giving the free use of highways. It is not like that,” Nanta said, and that the government will have to come up with billions of ringgit in maintenance every year.
“If we do away with toll, then the kind of money that the government will have to spend on maintaining those highways that used to be tolled, that have their own money through toll [collection] for maintenance, and then the government takes over the responsibility, you would [deprive] Malaysians who are not using the toll from the government funding that otherwise could be spent on them,” the minister said.
This reduced funding would affect not just East Malaysians, but also Malaysians in other states such as Kelantan and Terengganu which do not have tolled highways like those in the western part of Peninsular Malaysia, he said.
“Our friends in Kelantan, Terengganu, and those everywhere else who do not need to use the toll highways will be deprived of government funding to develop their places. So, to me, toll has to be collected.
“Because these [highway] developers no longer need to pay back their loans, so they should [collect less]. [They should] make profit, so that they can carry on with the maintenance, but [at a reduced rate] so that the rakyat can enjoy cheaper toll fares. That should be the way,” the minister said.
“We should not abolish tolls.” – Minister of Works Alexander Nanta Linggi
He tell us that Malaysians could lose out if the government gets rid of tolls, updates us on the progress of the Multi Lane Free Flow (MLFF) project, and explains why the majority of damaged roads now… pic.twitter.com/MB5mL5P9Y0
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i think for the most part most Malaysians dah pasrah dah with the having to pay for tolls. it’s the traffic that we cannot tahan. why not just do those gantryless systems like everywhere else in the world. sigh. diorang ni kan dengar ke tak our voices ni. we simply cannot win regardless of who is in charge because it’s just different version of whoever was in charge last. sakit hati lah.
Refer my name
As well refer my name too
motorcycle for free in toll :D
Can collect toll, but should be collect by Government so the money goes back to rakyat. Not via privates which reap in billions.
IMO, govt collecting money would be an issue. If you look at public roads (owned by the govt and federal state), it is not maintained, where else in private roads (eg. PLUS) is maintained. I’m not saying that it’s a bad idea, but cases such as money leakage and bribe seems to be a thing within the govt body.
This is a pretty dumb solution. Private company apply for financing to build the highway, but govt collect toll? It’s the private company that will have to bear the liabilities and debt obligations. If there’s any abuse of the collected funds or financing repayments, the govt will not be impacted but the private company will.
If it’s govt that applies for financing and builds the highway and collects toll, then we’re back to square one with project cost overruns and lack of transparency as with our ongoing major infrastructure projects.
If you think govt collecting money and it will go back to the rakyat, you must be born yesterday.
DonkeyKong, you are always putting down Rakyat common sense. You are always mocking the most basic principle of true democratic value (a government that exclusively works for the people and NOT for few filthy reach s#kers on the share market and the international debt imposed by the Fed)
Gaddafi, Sadam Hussein or Hitler managed to provide free roads, health care tax free habitation, education and a lot of benefit to their people, but (((private international gang of banksters))) hated that idea.
If Malaysian gov was not forced to adhere to the Jewish bogus dollar, Malaysia would be debt free and highways would be free and perfectly maintained.
A Royal National Socialism would be possible but parasites like you don’t like that. You like donkeys because donkeys are easy to fool, easy to tax and retax again…
Highway is funded by government but manage by private.
Plus loan is guaranteed by Government. If Plus defaulted, Government has to pay back. Imagine that.
Federal roads are not tolled but own by the government only, hence the less than ideal road condition. With current administration, I do see some improvement lately, TBH.
are you sure there is no abuse in private firms…especially GLCs??
If going by his logic, I also do not use diesel so why should the govt subsidize diesel when it can be better spent on other things? Many other countries do not have annual driving license fee and high excise duty for vehicles. These tax should be enough to pay or cover partially for the highway maintenance
hahaha.. ada rasa hanching tak? rang tambun .. orang ampang
You cant put a tax of everything frigging thing. Keep your tolls, abolish import tariff. Sincerely, Rakyat.
Thanks to Ubah, now Malaysia is a low income nation with high taxes that do not translate to social benefits. Tahniah and tepuk kuat sikit.
P.S. to braindead Pakatan Hancing supporters, criticizing PH’s infinite BS doesn’t mean we want Hadi to be PM, ok? It’s not a binary choice and PH’s incompetence is inexcusable
you speak like there’s a 3rd opposition. its either bad (PH+BN) or worse in the eyes of some (PN).
go stick to sinkie politics
i dunno how he thinks, always sub country income source to other private company and resulting own account in red colors.
Rakyat were asking to adapt gantryless TOLL not abolish all of them. OH GOSH THESE OLD HAGS ARE SO DUMB. Seriously i think im gonna go insane just by seeing these pathetic ministers how come these people can be in power of the government?!!!
No. We voted for abolish tolls, understand? A-B-O-L-I-S-H TOLLS!
What’s road tax for?
For Loke to print GOLD number plates
Do these politicians even realise how dumb the stuff that comes out of their mouth is?
First of all, They do realize how dumb has become the people… Politicians simply follow an agenda, BigData helps them to adjust the dose of daily bullshit people are willing to swallow.
Since Cohen-19 international coup, a new step has been achieved by the owners of this system.
So many people submitted to the most utter scientific nonsense (Hollywood-Wuhan super show, confinement and multiple injections story telling, so many people have proven how easy it was to control them and steal trillions of dollars from those idiot taxpayers…) why do you think that they will not increase a little bit more the dose of BS?
Why banksters should stop something that works so well? Why their puppets politicians would have to change their speech ? Why should they feed you with other things than BS, knowing that people are totally locked in their own BS social media entertainment?
Look at the people… Look at what they have become in less than 3 generations, sick, retard, fat, slow and deviant, look at what have become those taxpayers.
Post-modern World is rotten top to toe… Above the top? Private society that keep strong religious and racial links, some discreet VVIP you will never see in Forbes or Social Media…
thank god there are people who did not succumb to the multiple pokes mandates!!
Cheers bro
“Government should not abolish tolls – works minister”
But your own PMX promised us this!!!!!
the same old man menteri during PN regime, what do you expect.
PN never promised to abolish tolls but PH did. He is now a PH Gomen mentri. So PH turn back on their promises.
Once a tax or a charge is applied, very difficult to abolish.
Why not? PM Najib did. Not once, not twice, but thrice he abolished tolls one after another and it would have continued had he voted to stay. Alas..
he emptied one pocket into another pocket and transferred all to hermes, gucci, armani,
Toll collection is fine as long as it is used for the maintenance, upkeeing the long strecth highway from Perlis to JB, in good condition. If toll free means the good highway turning like Federal Route condition filled with potholes and uneven patches, we will be turned into a disgraced country.
If only the govt dont have so many leakages and corruption, all the money could have been paid for the highway building without even paying toll.
but that cannot be allowed to happen as all of it goes into the pcokets of a few million people. The system is all set up so that it only goes in a few pockets!!
No need to abolish. Just make it a fixed sum… like RM10 for interstate and RM1 for intrastate… something like that.
Right now we are paying RM 40-50 to travel interstate but the roads are in a deplorable state
but the ph beloved athony loke extended the concession of toll roads even beyond the agreement and the toll rates still the same