In God we trust, in highway trust we don’t

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Before the government demands our agreement on this highway trust initiative, they ought to build our confidence first. First, they should work on honouring their promises. At one time, it was about reducing toll rates and eventually abolishing tolls altogether. Given the choice, the majority of Malaysians wouldn’t want to pay tolls. Second, the government should not extend the concession period. Simply because the toll rates were reduced by a mere 18%, a longer concession extension of 10 years followed almost automatically. What issues might arise from putting all highways under a single trust body? At this stage of the concession upheaval, this poorly thought-out strategy says nothing but is perhaps another political gimmick to shadow the error. Not all existing highways are owned by Khazanah Nasional or the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), the two government-linked companies whic…