S’pore drivers may be able to use credit, debit cards to enter JB by Sept 2024: Malaysia minister

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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia is planning to allow drivers from Singapore to use their credit and debit cards to pay for the toll and road charge at the two border crossings into Johor by the end of the third quarter of 2024, allowing them to put aside their Touch ’n Go stored-value...

The Singapore-Johor checkpoints are among the world’s busiest land crossings. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, about 415,000 people crossed the land borders daily, including tens of thousands of cars, vans and lorries. Motorcycles do not have to pay the border toll.

Their call has dovetailed with the four-month-old Anwar Ibrahim administration’s plan – announced last week – to review all existing monopolies to ensure fairer and improved public services.Touch ’n Go has a monopoly on the payment system for Malaysian highways, but the government said it will allow other players to come in, in what it calls an open payment system.

There is a possibility that the MLFF system will be implemented at the two border crossings of Singapore as early as the third quarter of 2024, Mr Nanta said.

Source: Loan Digest (loandigest.net)

 

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