No change in toll rates for intra-city highways


Lim Guan Eng says the freezing of increases for intra-city highway toll rates is estimated to cost the government RM700 million. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 2, 2018.

THE government will not raise toll charges for all intra-city highways next year, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said in revealing Pakatan Harapan’s first ever budget.

Putrajaya will also scrap toll fares for motorcycles at Penang’s first and second bridges, as well as the Johor Causeway and Second Link.

“Freezing the increase of intra-city highway toll rates is estimated to be RM700 million, and the yearly estimated cost of abolishing the motorcycle toll is at RM20 million, starting from January next year,” Lim said during the Budget 2019 tabling in the Dewan Rakyat today. – November 2, 2018.


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