Toll hike from Thursday

KUALA LUMPUR: Toll rates along several major highways in the country will go up between 20sen and RM4.70 from Thursday.

The highways are the Kajang Traffic Dispersal Ring Road (SILK), Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway (DUKE), Maju Expressway (MEX), Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway (KLK), KL-Kuala Selangor Expressway (Latar), SMART tunnel, New Pantai Expressway (NPE), Besraya Highway, Lebuhraya Kajang Seremban (Lekas), Guthrie Corridor Expressway (Guthrie), Kemuning Shah Alam Expressway (LKSA), Ampang Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway (Akleh), Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong, Sprint, Grand Saga Expressway, Senai-Desaru Expressway and Butterworth Outer Ring Road (BORR).

Silk Holdings Bhd said it would raise the toll for cars to RM1.80 while for vehicles with two axles and five or six wheels (except for buses), the new rate is RM3.60.

The toll rates for cars using the DUKE will be increased by 50sen to RM2.50 at the Ayer Panas, Sentul Pasar and Kampung Batu toll plazas while MEX will increase its rates for cars to RM2 and RM3.50 at the Salak South toll plaza and Putrajaya toll plaza respectively.

Motorists will also see an increase in charges for the KLK with road users required to pay RM6 at the Gombak toll plaza and RM3.50 at the Bentong toll plaza.

For Latar, the new rates will be RM2.50 at the Ijok, Kuang Timur, Kuang Barat, Templer plaza toll and RM1.30 for Kundang Timur, Kundang Barat, while for SMART tunnel, the new rate is RM3 and for Akleh it is RM2.50.

For the NPE, vehicles with two axles and three or four wheels (excluding taxis and buses) will have to pay RM2.30 for Pantai Dalam and PJS5 toll plazas, and RM1 at the PJS2 toll plaza while Besraya’s new rate is now RM2 for both Mines’ north and south toll plazas.

For Lekas, the rates are RM1.30, RM3.40, RM4.80 and RM6 for the Semenyih, Pajam, Mantin and Setul exits respectively.

The new toll rate for Guthrie is RM1.90 for all its plaza tolls while at LKSA, it will be RM1.70 for Sri Muda toll plaza and RM0.90 for the Alam Impian toll plaza.

There would also be an increase of between 40sen and RM4.70 along the Senai-Desaru Expressway, depending on vehicle classes.

Car drivers travelling between Senai and Bandar Penawar would have to pay toll of RM13.50 instead of the current rate of RM11.20

In Butterworth, motorists using the BORR to Prai, Bagan Ajam and Sungai Nyior will have to pay between 20sen and 70sen more.

Meanwhile, PLUS Malaysia Bhd (PLUS) said in a statement that the toll rates for all their highways would remain unchanged.

They include the North-South Expressway (NSE), the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE), the Federal Highway Route 2 (FHR2), the Seremban Port-Dickson Highway (SPDH), the North-South Expressway Central Link (NSECL), the Malaysia-Singapore Second Crossing (MSSC), the Butterworth-Kulim Expressway (BKE) and the Penang Bridge.

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