5 much more highways have agreed to take part in employing the open up payment technique for toll selection, which starts in mid-September. This was announced by functions minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi in a Facebook submit. The 5 highways are:
- Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP)
- Western KL Targeted traffic Dispersal Program (Dash)
- Shah Alam Expressway (Kesas)
- Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya Expressway (MEX)
- Clever Tunnel
This provides the total amount of highways included in the open toll payment process to 11. Last 7 days, Nanta experienced announced that 5 highways would put into action the procedure, which lets consumers to pay for toll employing debit and credit cards.
The five in the beginning talked about are the Sungai Besi Expressway (Besraya), Ampang-Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway (AKLEH), New Pantai Expressway (NPE), Guthrie Corridor Expressway (GCE) and Penang Bridge. This was afterwards enhanced to six when In addition announced that the Butterworth-Kulim Expressway (BKE) would also apply the procedure.
In his publish, Nanta stated that toll payment terminals applying debit/credit cards will be delivered in 1 lane of the toll plaza, but did not element this more. In its announcement previous 7 days, Furthermore said that motorists who wish to use debit or credit rating cards to pay for toll will have to utilise the radio frequency identification (RFID) lanes in get to do so.
Nanta reported the implementation of an open up toll payment program is one particular of the preparatory ways getting taken for the transition in direction of multi-lane rapid move (MLFF) toll collection, of which the first proof of notion (POC) is established to be up and working on the Sungai Besi Expressway (Besraya) by conclusion-October.
Independently, in a assertion, the Malaysian Freeway Authority (LLM) said it welcomed the implementation of open up toll payment and would function alongside one another with freeway concessionires to introduce the program, getting into account the complete ecosystem of the current toll selection procedure.