RM7 toll for cars crossing Second Penang Bridge



By Shannon Teoh
Mar 10, 2012
An artist's sense of a Second Penang Bridge.
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 10 The fee for a Second Penang Bridge has been set during RM7, instead of a progressing price of RM8.50, for cars to match which of a initial bridge.
The Federal Government had extended a benefaction duration for a Penang Bridge to December 31, 2038 in exchange for a solidify on fee hikes.
"Actually, you wish a fee to be reduce though if you are lower, a initial overpass will complain. The initial Penang Bridge was ostensible to increase to over RM9, so you were ready to follow them.
"However, they have reliable which they are staying during RM7, so you will also assign RM7," Jambatan Kedua Sdn Bhd managing executive Datuk Dr Ismail Mohamed Taib Dr Ismail was quoted as saying byThe Startoday.
Prior to a fee solidify voiced in late Nov last year, Putrajaya had pronounced a Second Penang Bridge, to be finished in Sep 2013, would assign RM1.70 for motorcycles as well as RM8.50 for four-wheeled vehicles.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had progressing pronounced which fee rates for both bridges will be set during RM1.90 for motorbikes as well as RM9.40 for cars once a second overpass is finished until a initial bridge's benefaction agreement ends in 2018.
This led a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Penang supervision to start an anti-toll hike campaign.
But a fee will right away go on to be imposed on a initial overpass until 2038 after PLUS Expressways struck a understanding which sees a main road concessionaire waive RM6.5 billion in compensation from a supervision for not raising fares.
DAP cabinet member ubiquitous Lim Guan Eng then indicted a company of cheating Penangites saying "I suspicion only my children will compensate a fee though righ! t away e ven my grandchildren will pay."
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