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Friday, May 20, 2011

No need to pay 50sen Toll

I was so happy (lots of other people staying in BTR and cheras would be very thrilled too) when I learned that toll (50sen only) would be abolished. I use this toll gate every morning. For the next two years before I retire, I will have saved a bundle. But look at the horrendous jam!!! Absolutely no elbow room, it's a bumper-to bumper crawl!!!!



TOLL-FREE, BUT NOT JAM-FREE... The abolishment of 50 sen toll collection since May 16 brought relief to the METRAMAC road users. The abolishment was done 7 years earlier, which was initially supposed to end by May 13, 2018. However, since the free usage was introduced, traffic has been bad with car volume increasing more than previously. Photo by Bernama.
May 18, 2011 9:26 pm


Read more: New Straits Times Online http://www.nst.com.my/nst/#ixzz1MozoTInt


FREE FOR ALL... Vehicles crawling towards Petaling Jaya on the Metramac highway after the goverment abolished the toll plazas yesterday. Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said the toll collection was being abolished seven years before the concession period for the highway was due to end on May 31, 2018. — Bernama picture
May 19, 2011 1:49 am


Read more: New Straits Times Online http://www.nst.com.my/nst/#ixzz1MotSm4sr




My 2 cents' worth:

1. Lots of people need to use this road.
2. Just to save 5o sen they use alternate road prior to this.
3. 50 sen is nothing to you, but a lot to these users.
5. Why don't they abolish toll that is RM1.60 or RM2 ? Why only the 50 sen one?
6. Why the need to collect toll in the first place?
7. When we travelled by bus all over Europe, the boundaries between different countries were toll free! You do not even know that you have entered a different country! Here, when you enter Cheras, exit Cheras, travel WITHIN Cheras you pay toll right and left. (funny, other areas no toll, why, why?)
8. Cemeteries like Nirvana and Semenyih Burial Plot are located outside Cheras...so funeral hearse also pay toll, even when one is dead, one needs to pay toll!!!!!!!
Lol, on one's last journey on this earth, don't forget to pay toll ya.

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