RM2 toll for SMART tunnel use

KUALA LUMPUR: Users of the Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (Smart) will be charged a RM2 toll from 11.59pm on June 14, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.
Samy Vellu said the RM2 toll would be increased again in three years and that the price was right as the concessionaire that built the tunnel had forked out RM640mil to build it.
He added that there was no Government subsidy involved.
“In any part of the world where tunnels are built, the toll is higher,” he told reporters during a press conference after officiating at a meeting of senior Works Ministry officers on Monday.
“It is also an alternative route. Road users can continue to use the existing highway but if you need to speed up your journey, then use the tunnel.”
Motorists can enter the road tunnel from the Kuala Lumpur-Seremban Expressway near the Sungai Besi airfield runway and exit either at Jalan Davis and Jalan Tun Razak near the Kampung Pandan roundabout, or vice-versa.

The tunnel is open only to cars, MPVs and SUVs not exceeding 2m in height.
No motorcycles, buses or lorries are allowed.
Touch ‘n Go and SmartTag facilities are available for paying toll.
As for questions about why flash floods were still occurring even though the tunnel was open, Samy Vellu said he believed the Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) had many projects to deal with the problem.
It was reported previously that the floodwater diversion part of the Smart project would only be operational next month, while the motorway tunnel was opened on May 14.
DID director-general Datuk Keizrul Abdullah had said that the Smart tunnel was only one of the two components needed to solve flash floods in the Klang Valley.
The other component includes the construction of some 200 dams and flood retention ponds.
Keizrul said the Smart tunnel and the ponds are supposed to complement each other and only then would the problem be solved.
He added that only 100 out of the 200 ponds had been constructed and completed.

tunku : i guess it's very cheap compare with the cost of making it. i hope the opposition don't make an issue out of it.if yo don't want to pay,use th old existing road, it's free.