Recent Steep Increases in ERP Charges

Mr David Ong asked the Minister for Transport what is the rationale for the steep and sudden increase in ERP charges at six gantries leading to the CTE and ECP.

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Mr Lui Tuck Yew: Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rates are reviewed every quarter, as well as during the June and December school holidays every year. On expressways, rates are adjusted generally by $1 when traffic speeds fall outside the optimal speed range of 45km/h to 65km/h.

Speeds at two locations – the southbound Central Expressway (CTE) after Braddell Road from 7.30am to 8.00am and the westbound East Coast Parkway (ECP) from 8.30am to 9.00am on weekdays – had been trending down and had fallen below 45km/h in the current quarter. ERP rates were, therefore, adjusted upwards by $1 at these two locations.

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