Malaysia's barrier-free MLFF toll project might see a new challenger. It was reported that Berjaya's MLFF proposal will cost at least 30% less.
by Free Malaysia Today . It was alleged that Berjaya Group is working on a competing bid to install a barrier-free system for highways which will cost at least 30% less than the current MLFF proposal by a YTL-linked consortium.
A source told FMT that senior Berjaya executives had held individual meetings with 32 highway concessionaires to get feedback before submitting their final proposal to the Ministry of Works. The report added that Berjaya’s MLFF proposal is more palatable compared to the earlier proposal that’s still being considered by the government.
What’s interesting is the reported arrangement for the MLFF implementation. The source said Berjaya proposes to allow highway companies to construct their respective multi-lane free-flow infrastructure and Berjaya or another company provides the toll collection services, which is apparently what highway concessionaires want.
The FMT source also said that concessionaires only want the MLFF system to be deployed at major toll plazas in the Klang Valley, Penang and Johor, where traffic congestion is worse, and the arrangement will reduce the implementation cost by 30%.which will get rid of physical toll lanes and barriers for a seamless toll payment experience. However, the project which costs RM3.46 billion appears to have hit a snag when it was reported that highway concessionaires had strongly.