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No ERP gantries for CTE tunnel for now
By Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia |
Posted: 27 August 2008 1747 hrs
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SINGAPORE : There are currently no plans to set up
Electronic Road Pricing gantries in the underground portion of the
Central Expressway, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary for
Transport Teo Ser Luck in Parliament on Wednesday.
This is because it does not pose as much of a safety risk as the
nine-kilometre-long Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE).
But if the safety situation changes or travel speeds fall below the
threshold level of 45 km per hour, gantries will be installed and
activated.
Mr Teo was responding to questions from MPs on whether gantries
would be built on other expressways in anticipation of slower
traffic flows.
He explained that as three-quarters of the nine-kilometre KPE is
underground, the impact of an incident there would "multiply many
fold" if traffic is congested.
So it is making the upfront investment of some S$24 million to
build the 16 gantries first, even though not all of them will be
activated when the KPE opens in September.
Mr Teo said: "The rationale is unique to the KPE in view of the
safety concerns and is not applied to arterial roads or other
expressways on the surface.
"The 16 gantries itself (are) on the entries and exits itself. So
based on the distance and where there are exits, we place the
installation of the gantries accordingly to the manner by the plans
of where there are exits." - CNA/ms
Can you imagine the kind of lame reasons they can think of
nowaday?
