The government has announced a 50% discount on highway toll charges nationwide for the upcoming Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations.
This discount will take effect at 12.01am on March 18 and will end at 11.59pm on March 19, applicable only for Class 1 private vehicles and will not apply to tolls at the country’s borders (Sultan Iskandar Building and Tanjung Kupang).
According to prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the move is expected to cost the government about RM21.03 million in compensation to toll concessionaries. We should point out that the 50% discount matches last year’s Hari Raya Aidilfitri and is in line with festival discounts in 2025 – no more free toll.
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Why need to pay compensation when PH has promised to abolish all tolls if they became Gomen, and now they are Gomen for years and thru 2 terms, so where is their promise?
ask BN to explain why they signed such lopsided toll concessionaires when they was in power. BN made such a mess now is it fair to ask PH to clean up their siht?
Seems you all have memory loss here.. Looks like everybody has forgotten that it was during the PM4 administration that the contracts between the govt & the toll concessionaire companies were drawn up in such a way that those companies will get compensated by the govt, should toll collection be ended prematurely before the stipulated time period. Unfortunately, these contracts are still legally binding, regardless of which political party or coalition takes over the government.
Looking back, the PM6 administration agreed to pay MRCB RM1.325 billion as compensation to end the Johor EDL toll, and pay RM2.2 billion to PLUS as compensation to end the Kedah Bukit Kayu Hitam toll and the Selangor Batu Tiga & Sungai Rasau tolls on the Federal Highway at the beginning of 2018. It was estimated that it would cost the government RM30 billion to end all highway tolls. Therefore, if the PM7 administration had ended all highway tolls, it would have RM30 billion less to fund subsidies and other programs for the rakyat.
13 Feb 2020 — Source: The Edge. From 1999 to 2011, BN didn’t just extend the concessionary period for PLUS tolls. Worse, BN even allowed these toll rates to increase! In 1999, BN first extended the
Wow, since when did PH become so generous?