Road toll rates increasing on Sunday

It is so ironic that a day after the DAP had proposed a way for the Federal Government to turn the North-South Expressway toll-free by 2016, the Works Ministry announces that the toll rates for travelling on this very expressway will be going up on 1 Mar 2009. That's just three days away!

I am so bloody disappointed that the government is allowing this to happen. Of course, they have their excuses. It smacks of poor governance by the people in power and it suggests greediness by highway concessionaires who wants to continue squeezing people during the economic downturn.

It's not only the North-South Expressway that we'll see a toll rate increase. The others will be the New Klang Valley Expressway, Federal Highway Route 2, New Pantai Expressway, Sungai Besi Highway and the Damansara and Kerinchi links of the Sprint highway.

And who are these concessionaires? PLUS Expressways Bhd, IJM Corp Bhd and Lingkaran Trans Kota Holdings Bhd (Litrak). Blood suckers!