{"id":164866,"date":"2022-04-26T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164866"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:53:34","slug":"ahead-of-raya-pm-announces-free-toll-discounts-on-30-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164866","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Raya, PM announces free toll, discounts on 30 highways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Rafiqi Yusoff<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 26 April 2022: Malaysians driving home for the long-awaited Hari Raya Puasa celebrations this year can look forward to cheaper or even toll free rates on 30 highways nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister, Dato&#8217; Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the discounts and toll waiver are estimated to save motorists RM77.1 million, adding that the highway operators will bear the costs, according to <em>Malay Mail<\/em> report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153In line with the transition phase towards endemicity since 1 April 2022 and in conjunction with the Aidil Fitri celebrations that is expected to fall on 3 May, the government has agreed to give free and discounted tolls for&nbsp;<em>Keluarga Malaysia&nbsp;<\/em>returning to celebrate,\u009d he said in a statement yesterday (25 April).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PLUS, which operates the spinal north-south highway, will be waiving toll starting midnight 30 April 30 (Saturday) until 11.59pm on 1 May (Sunday) for all classes of vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other toll operator to waive the fares will be Anih Berhad, which operates the east coast highways. The waiver will take effect within the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the concessionaires will also be waiving tolls for the return trip. The free toll will take effect starting 7 May at midnight until 11.59pm on 8 May. Ismail said this will be the first time the two concessionaires waive tolls for both trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, other operators have agreed to give between 30 and 50 per cent discounts for motorists using their roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153I hope the discounted and free tolls will make the Aidil Fitri celebrations with your loved ones this year merrier,\u009d Ismail said.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Malay Mail <\/em><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rafiqi Yusoff KUALA LUMPUR, 26 April 2022: Malaysians driving home for the long-awaited Hari Raya Puasa celebrations this year can look forward to cheaper&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2727,"featured_media":164867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[156,12,2727],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/news-today.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164866"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164883,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164866\/revisions\/164883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}