Toll at PJS2 plaza reduced to RM1 - The toll rate at the Petaling Jaya Selatan 2 (PJS2) toll plaza along the New Pantai Expressway (NPE)...

Toll at PJS2 plaza reduced to RM1

PETALING JAYA: The toll rate at the Petaling Jaya Selatan 2 (PJS2) toll plaza along the New Pantai Expressway (NPE) near Kampung Medan here will be lowered from RM1.60 to RM1 effective today.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who announced this, said the reduction was a Chinese New Year gift to the residents in the area.

“This is another example of how we will do the best for the people of Selangor and Malaysia,” he said to applause from about 2,500 people at the Chap Goh Mei festival gathering organised by Selangor Barisan Nasional at Padang Taman Datuk Hormat PJS 10 yesterday.

The toll fee change takes effect from 12.01am today.

The RM1.2bil NPE, stretching 19.5km and opened on April 30, 2004, is managed by the concessionaire New Pantai Expressway Sdn Bhd.

This is the third toll rate cut Najib has announced since he tabled Budget 2011 last year.

On Jan 28, Najib announced there would be no toll increase for the next five years for the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway and East Coast Expressway Phase One.

He said the toll for the Salak to Taman Connaught stretch of the East-West Link Expressway would be abolished by May.

In the 2011 Budget tabled in October last year, Najib announced a five-year freeze on toll rates on four highways owned by Plus Expressway.

At the event yesterday, Najib handed 650 envelopes of RM200 cash each to the disabled, single mothers and senior citizens.

He said RM1.2bil had been given to the needy in the country but some people were not appreciative.

“The Opposition gave RM100 a year to each person (senior citizen) and there was much applause but we give more than the Opposition.

“This is because we run the country efficiently, we do not fight unnecessarily, we don’t leave the party, we don’t have special state assembly sittings which we know would not benefit the people,” he said.