DR M: GOVT TO PAY COMPENSATION TO PLUS

This follows termination of concessions at Sg Besi toll plaza

THE government is required to pay compensation to the North-South Expressway (PLUS) following the ending of the Kuala Lumpur-Seremban Expressway and Salak Expressway concessions at the Sungai Besi toll plaza.

Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the compensation was in the agreement with the concession.

He said the ending of the toll collection involved only the Sungai Besi toll and not the others.

“We did not discuss ending toll collection elsewhere. Only the Sungai Besi toll, as per the contract which ended on May 31,” he said after chairing the Pakatan Harapan presidential council meeting yesterday.

The Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) announced yesterday that there would be no more toll collection for the Kuala Lumpur-Seremban Expressway and Salak Expressway at the Sungai Besi toll plaza, managed by PLUS, as of midnight.

LLM, in a statement, said with the termination of the concession period, toll charges on all routes exiting and entering the Sungai Besi Toll Plaza would be reduced by between one per cent and 50 per cent (between RM0.40 and RM1.70).

The termination is expected to benefit nearly 130,000 vehicles passing through the toll plaza on a daily basis.

Users who pass through Sungai Besi toll plazas will only need to pay the tolls within the North-South Expressway (PLUS) alignment that they are travelling through.