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Terima kasih pada BPNS dan NST kerana perihatin kepada rakyat yang ramainya semakin tertekan dengan kenaikan harga barangan dan tol. Namun, cek nak bertanya pada NST, benar kah dia perihatin atau berkemungkinankah ada agenda tersendiri di sebalik nasihat beliau. Pada pandangan cek, dalam keadaan sekarang ni la, kita pusing mana pun kita rakyat Malaysia - umumnya penduduk lembah kelang - kita rugi. Melainkan...
Cerita cek mudah je. Sudah terbukti bahawa apabila ada projek pengswastaan gagal mencapai matlamatnya, pemerintah akan gunakan dana rakyat untuk selamatkan syarikat itu(read: crony depa). Contohnya seperti LRT, STAR, dan beberapa lagi sehingga tertubuh Danaharta untuk menguruskan kesemua atau sebahagiannya. Yang mengalir keluar untuk selamatkan semua tu, duit rakyat kerana pemerintah hanya merupakan pemegang amanah yang 'dilantik'. Namun, seandainya projek projek pengswastaan tu berjaya, yang mengalir keluar untuk membayar tiap tiap hari tu, pun duit rakyat. Cuma, kali ni direct dari poket kita ja. Jadi liplap liplap, pusing mana pun, kita juga kena bayaq.
La ni, kalau semua rakyat berjaya elakkan tol tu, akan bugkuskah syarikat konsesi tol tu? Rasa cek lah, dok eh. Kerana seperti cek nyatakan di atas, pemerintah akan sekali lagi menyalahgunakan dana rakyat untuk selamatkan syarikat konsesi tu. Jadi kita rakyat ni apa kalau tidak diperbudakkan sahaja oleh pemerintah. Itu lah sebabnya cek persoal tulisan NST: Mungkinkah ada agenda tersembunyi? Mungkinkah mereka hanya soldadu dalam percatutan parti pemerintah yang sedang celaru dan harubiru itu?
Pada cek lah, kalau dari dahulu Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia menyelenggarakan projek lebuhraya, keadaan mungkin berbeza sedikit. Kepincangan itu tetap ada, namun tidaklah seharubiru dan celaru seperti bendera biru berlambang dacing tu no?
From: BPPNS <pasn9@yahoo. com>
Subject: Nak tahu cara Boikot Tol di KL ? Begini caranya..
Berikut adalah beberapa alternatif kepada rakyat
Malaysia untuk mengajar syarikat konsesi tol Malaysia
yang menaikkan tol sesuka hati :
1. Kalau dulu pakai kereta Perdana, cuba pakai Kancil
2. Kalau dulu pakai Kancil cuba guna motosikal
3. Kalau tak ada lesen motor, cuba pengangkutan awam,
bas, LRT, Putra
4. Kalau tiada stesen bas berhampiran atau bas terlalu
lama, cuba kongsi kereta
5. Kalau terpaksa juga naik kereta gunakan laluan
alternatif yang tak perlu tol yang dinyatakan dalam
artikel New Straits Times dibawah ini.
6. Akhir sekali kalau dah tak tahan sangat, sertailah
demonstrasi membantah kenaikan tol. KUASA RAKYAT,
PEOPLE’S POWER
To toll or not to toll...
http://www.nst. com.my/Current_ News/nst/ Wednesday/ Features/ 20070206152851/ Article/index_ html
07 Feb 2007
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After prices for five tolled roads were raised on Jan
1, Life & Times set out to find some worthy
alternative routes. SHANNON TEOH writes, with
additional reporting from YEANG SOO CHING, MANVEET
KAUR and RIDZWAN RAHIM.
LEBUHRAYA DAMANSARA-PUCHONG
Used to be: Three RM1 tolls.
The damage now: Three RM1.60 tolls.
Residents in Puchong are practically surrounded by
tolls in all directions but there is apparently a
simple way out of this.
WK Lim has a particularly useful route that he uses to
and from his university in Cyberjaya.
If you’re headed back to Puchong from Cyberjaya, just
take the last exit which heads to Serdang/Sri
Kembangan.
Next, when you hit the traffic light, turn left onto
Jalan Persiaran Kota Perdana until you reach a
roundabout. Take the 3o’clock and watchout for a sharp
right-hand at a dumpsite. Then its the next left, then
a right at the T-junction onto Jalan Puncak Bukit
Jalil. Continue until the next junction and turn left
into Jalan Kinrara 6.
This will eventually take you to Bandar Kinrara where
a right will take you to the Bukit Jalil Highway, a
left to Puchong and straight will eventually lead to
Old Klang Road.
He claims the distance from Cyberjaya to Bandar
Kinrara is exactly the same (25km) and takes just five
minutes more.
Lee Chin-Ken has a different route to bypass the same
Puchong Selatan toll.
Take the Pulau Meranti exit, and at the third traffic
light, make a U-turn and then a left.
This road will take you to Bukit Puchong, which is
basically just past the toll booths.
He says this route is about 9km, which is about the
same taking the highway, but admits that it’ll take
more time and the road condition isn’t perfect.
For the northern end of Puchong, if you’re headed
towards KL, take Jalan Puchong which ends up in Old
Klang Road and then turn left to Petaling Jaya or
right to KL.
Tan Chee Leong, 31, a factory manager, lives on Jalan
Gasing which basically connects via Jalan Templer to
Old Klang Road.
After trying this route to his office in Pusat Bandar
Puchong, he now neglects the tolled route which
involves one New Pantai Expressway toll (RM1.60) and
the Petaling Jaya Selatan toll into Puchong.
“Previously I only used the tolled road assuming it
was faster and better. But this way is just five
minutes longer after the roadworks were completed.
And according to the onboard computer this results in
lower consumption per kilometre and is in fact, only
14.5km long against the 16km of the tolled route.”
But at peak hours, the untolled route requires double
the 20 minutes that the tolled route takes and is the
only time one might want to consider the toll.
Liow Mei Fong, however, finds the 25km or so commute
from her home in Sg Besi to Puchong Industrial Park to
be fastest via the NPE and LDP, resulting in RM4.80 in
toll.
The route heading towards the KL-Seremban toll but
turning off at Mines near the race course and heading
up at the Bukit Jalil Highway to Puchong takes twice
as long, at half an hour.
This 24-year-old project coordinator finds that she’ll
definitely pay the toll whenever she’s in a rush.
> CHERAS-KAJANG
Used to be: 70 sen and 60 sen for Batu 9 and 11
respectively.
The damage now: Up 30 sen each.
One intrepid commuter has two alternative routes to
the Cheras-Kajang which takes her from her home in
Cheras to her workplace in Cyberjaya.
For starters, her original route also passes by the
SILK Sungai Balak toll which links up Putrajaya and
the Cheras-Kajang, bringing her total toll to RM2.90
each way.
June Tham, a 23-year-old sub-editor, says that this
route is the fastest, taking just over half-an-hour
and guarantees that you will avoid any jams or flash
floods.
However, there is also another option of going through
MINES, taking the Besraya Highway, which costs just
RM1.30 in toll.
From the Connaught Highway, you get onto the MRR2 and
head past the toll and onwards past the Serdang KTM
Komuter station and into Cyberjaya via the Serdang
Hospital and Putrajaya.
This route in fact, while taking about five minutes
more due to the bottleneck on the MRR2, is actually
3km shorter.
There is the possibility of a flash flood after the Sg
Besi LRT station though and the Connaught is usually
jammed up after 6.15pm if you try to take this way
home.
But her real gem find is the toll-less route that goes
via Connaught, Bandar Tasik Selatan, MRR2, Astro, Seri
Kembangan and onto Cyberjaya.
“If you leave before 7am, it only takes 45 minutes but
can take more than an hour if you hit bad traffic
later on. Road surfacing also isn’t the best but it’s
only 32km long.”
She figures that her petrol cost are the same for all
these routes and the savings on toll make the last
option the best for going to work since she doesn’t
mind leaving early, but on the way home, the rush hour
means that it’s either of the tolled routes.
“What I can save is time. I’d rather pay more for
peace of mind than be stuck in a traffic jam or flood
waters.”
> KESAS (SHAH ALAM HIGHWAY)
Used to be: Three RM1.50 tolls
The damage now: Each toll up by 70 sen.
To begin with, there are many ways from KL to Klang
and vice versa and so the Kesas is not by any stretch
of the imagination the only resort.
The Federal Highway costs less in toll (RM2.10) if you
can take the nearly perpetual congestion.
Then there’s the NKVE which is pretty smooth all the
way except whenever you’re queuing up at the Damansara
tollbooth.
The third route is to pick your way out of the Federal
Highway towards Subang Airport and then turning into
Glenmarie before rejoining the Federal after passing
by Shah Alam Stadium, which is basically just after
the Batu Tiga toll.
Just before the Sg Rasau toll, head into Padang Jawa
and then it’s basically Klang.
Rest assured, this will take half-an-hour more than
just paying up for the RM2.10 for both Federal Highway
tolls.
If you’re taking the Kesas to head towards Banting,
consider using the above strategies to get to
Cyberjaya, then head to Banting via Dengkil.
Once again, we’re certain this will cost you an hour’s
more grief.
However, Liow (see above) has a route to get to work
which involves just one Kesas toll (Awan Kecil/Besar
interchange) that takes around five minutes more as
compared to her RM4.80 route involving the NPE and
LDP.
So perhaps, another 10 minutes of driving to avoid
this RM2.20 by detouring through Bukit Jalil is worth
it. Perhaps.
> KUALA LUMPUR-KARAK
Used to be: RM2.50 at Bentong then RM4 at Gombak.
The damage now: RM3 at Bentong and RM5 at Gombak.
Very few of us would be heading out to Bentong/Genting
Highlands or Karak as part of our daily commute, so
this is more of a holiday route.
And if you have the resources to embark on such a
trip, surely RM1.50 each way is doable.
But if you are one of the rare few for whom this is a
business trip, then the hilly and windy road via the
spectacular Sg Tua Dam is an option.
The route starts opposite the EPF building in Selayang
and you just follow signs saying Genting Highlands.
This takes about 15-20 minutes longer than via the
highway.
From there, you can make your way to the Bukit Tinggi
exit and continue along the Genting Sempah rest stop,
and take the backroad to Bentong, which is quite a
long, windy road. Meaning from KL-Bentong, avoiding
the highway might eat up in excess of an hour in extra
drivetime, not to mention the petrol.
> GUTHRIE CORRIDOR EXPRESSWAY
Used to be: Three RM1 stops.
The damage now: Each up by 40 sen.
This is, undoubtedly, the fastest way from Shah Alam
to Rawang. And while it did come at a price before,
that price just got heftier.
Plus the 80 sen PLUS Highway toll to get into Rawang
town, that’s RM5 altogether.
Imagine if you started from Puchong like CK Cha, a
34-year-old engineer.
That’s RM1.60 from the LDP and another RM1.60 for the
elite stretch from USJ to Shah Alam.
Taking the PLUS Highway direct from Shah Alam to
Rawang, however, costs just RM4.30 and alternatively,
RM5.50 from USJ.
Another alternative to Rawang is to take the LDP
through to Kepong and continue from there, a total
toll cost of RM3.20.
The GCE route takes him 45 minutes, PLUS Highway takes
an extra 10 minutes and the LDP route takes 90
minutes.
No surprise that Cha is willing to spare the extra 10
minutes to save the RM1.10 by using the PLUS Highway
but not doubling his drivetime via the LDP.
The trunk road all the way from Bukit Jelutong to
Rawang is probably not worth discussing at all.
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