Comments on: Towards a More Equitable Highway Toll System

By: ktteokt

ktteokt — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:53:18 +0000

First they privatised utilities like telecommunication, electricity supply, water supply, garbage disposal, sewage treatment and the like, then comes postal services, tolls, and many more. And at one point I heard they intended to privatise LHDN too. Privatisation has brought with it lots of problems, corruption, misuse of power, etc. If the government or the PM thinks it is better to privatise everything in Malaysia, then perhaps they should consider privatising the whole government. Let’s begin with the establishment of PM Sdn. Bhd. with the PM as the Chairman.

By: helpless

helpless — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:35:05 +0000

Good question from Boh-liau, YB shall post the same to Transport Ministry.

Question as why privatise when the government can instead pay compensation several X higher than the PLANNED PROJECT COST.

If the actual final cost is unavoidable, what wrong to the original quote? YB, can get support from public , I guess people of all race will support in getting the detail and want to know EXPLANATION for the exorbitant cost increase.

By: boh-liao

boh-liao — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:01:39 +0000

When our government privatised highways in the Klang Valley and other parts of the country, it claimed that it did not have the financial resource to do build and maintain the highways.

However, our government had money (in fact a lot more money) to happily compensate the various construction companies (Wonder who really own these companies? Politicians? Politicians’ family members?) and to bailout various companies involved in megaprojects - to the tune of >RM10 billion in total.

Either our government is stupid or our government is confident that the people are stupid, have no memory, and do not how to count.

By: peace

peace — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:11:24 +0000

and guess what they are doing with LDP now?

refurbishing and repaving the roads where there’s no potholes nor cracks to begin with…

what are they trying to do? justifying the 60% increase with their acting?

and the worst part is, there’s virtually no other alternative.

By: ktteokt

ktteokt — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:52:21 +0000

Why pay road tax when they want to collect toll?

By: badak

badak — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:15:40 +0000

Firstly how can the goverment use the O.S.A on the highway concessionnaire agreement,What are they hidding from the public.

It is stupid for the goverment to a ward the concessionnaire to a company and then give them a soft loan to start the project.

By: simon tan

simon tan — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:17:33 +0000

I believed the issue is indeed a great interest of all. Public transport, road, public service is naturally for public. Once the control fall into a specific group of people instead of “public control” such as private toll collectable road, it is naturally likely to became a “licence robber” due to monopoly and indispensible position. Therefore, the entire financial management matter must be transparent to public because it is for the majority of the end users. It should be some sort of direct poll study which can be done via radio, TV and SMS survey and not be only represented by a few persons in government department.