Earlier this week, an opposition lawmaker has suggested that the government close the Gombak and Karak toll plazas on theto ease congestion. The proposal has since been emphatically shot down by works minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi, according to theyesterday, Nanta Linggi said such a move to abolish tolls on the Karak and ECE highways would incur greater costs for road maintenance, which the government would have to bear.
Nanta Linggi’s remarks were in response to PAS deputy president Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, who urged the government to close the Gombak and Karak toll plazas as they were causing congestion. The Kubang Kerian MP told the Dewan Rakyat on Monday that motorists had to pass four toll plazas when they should only pass through two.