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Article: Malaysia : New toll plaza for Seremban.
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- Article date:
- June 4, 2008
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Byline: pinto03
THE government will build a new toll plaza in Seremban to ease the traffic congestion into town and the surrounding areas. The total cost for land acquisition and the construction of the toll plaza and an access road is RM168mil. Rasah MP Anthony Loke Siew Fook said, however, that the project should be the responsibility of the highway concessionaire, instead of the government using public funds for it. I was shocked when told by the Works Ministry that it will cost the government USD 51.7 m (RM168mil) to build the new toll plaza. The amount is almost as much as the state s annual income of USD 55.4 m (RM180mil), he said.
Loke said this ...