Apart from extra particulars concerning the forthcoming RON95 focused subsidies set to be introduced on the finish of September, prime minister Anwar Ibrahim additionally confirmed throughout his particular “rakyat appreciation” tackle that toll charges won’t go up this 12 months – regardless of a rise beforehand being on the playing cards for ten highways.
To keep up toll charges on the present ranges, the federal government needed to foot an over RM500 million invoice to subsidise the highways, which embody the Senai-Desaru Expressway (SDE), East Coast Expressway 2 (LPT2), South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE), Butterworth Outer Ring Highway (BORR) dan Maju Expressway (MEX).
The federal government beforehand managed to stave off a toll price hike again in 2022, when it took over the Gamuda group’s 4 highways to save lots of RM4.3 billion in subsidies and stop a rise; it later locked within the present toll charges of these highways for the following ten years. In 2023, it was reported that Malaysia was contemplating extending freeway concession phrases to 30 years to maintain charges as they have been, though nothing has been introduced as but.
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