I agree with Dr. Mahathir or even Najib. Ridiculous to remove tolls especially for people who do not use highways.
Unfortunately a promise is a promise. We can still fulfill the promise by twisting some of the words, while making highways more efficient.
Some highways need their tools to be removed because they are not
conducive to free flow of vehicles. Also ;difficult to enforce the
proposed method of charging highway use.
The solution is to use highway permits. Instead of tolls, use highway permits as used by Switzerland especially for tourists. We can do the same and charge tourists higher for the use of highways.
You may say it is the same as tolls, but not really. It does not stop the flow of traffic. It makes travelling to highways much faster and more efficient.
For tourists, it is not fair because we have to pay for the whole year when we only use it for two days, so I do not use it.
For the Malaysian case, we can make it more affordable by not breaking our finances. Special highway permits during special occasions, at rates that are much lower than current tool rates. We can even make it permit free for these occasions but this is not advisable.
Malaysians should pay some lah. It will allow more people to use the non toll roads, and it will not congest the highways so much also.
As for subsidizing the highway by lowering the cost of the permit, this is not true because under heavy use, the cost of tolls should be much less. More people using the highway the cheaper it becomes because highways do not consume much resources once built. Only depreciation and maintenance costs which should be much less once divided among more users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorways_of_Switzerland
The Swiss autobahn/autoroute system requires the purchase of a vignette (toll sticker) — which costs 40 Swiss francs — for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks.[4] The Swiss vignette is offered only as an annual toll sticker. Trucks also have to pay a toll based on the tonnage and the distance.
The solution is to use highway permits. Instead of tolls, use highway permits as used by Switzerland especially for tourists. We can do the same and charge tourists higher for the use of highways.
You may say it is the same as tolls, but not really. It does not stop the flow of traffic. It makes travelling to highways much faster and more efficient.
For tourists, it is not fair because we have to pay for the whole year when we only use it for two days, so I do not use it.
For the Malaysian case, we can make it more affordable by not breaking our finances. Special highway permits during special occasions, at rates that are much lower than current tool rates. We can even make it permit free for these occasions but this is not advisable.
Malaysians should pay some lah. It will allow more people to use the non toll roads, and it will not congest the highways so much also.
As for subsidizing the highway by lowering the cost of the permit, this is not true because under heavy use, the cost of tolls should be much less. More people using the highway the cheaper it becomes because highways do not consume much resources once built. Only depreciation and maintenance costs which should be much less once divided among more users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorways_of_Switzerland
The Swiss autobahn/autoroute system requires the purchase of a vignette (toll sticker) — which costs 40 Swiss francs — for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks.[4] The Swiss vignette is offered only as an annual toll sticker. Trucks also have to pay a toll based on the tonnage and the distance.
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