SINGAPORE - Motorists using the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) will
incur higher costs from Aug 4 as four new electronic road pricing
(ERP) gantries are switched on.
The Land Transport Authority
(LTA) said Tuesday that traffic speeds along two stretches of the
AYE between Jurong Town Hall Road and North Buona Vista Road during
the morning and evening peak hours were still below the optimal
range.
Hence the three additional ERP
gantries will start charging citybound cars $2 after Jurong Town
Hall, on Clementi Avenue 6 and Clementi Avenue 2 slip roads leading
to the highway between 7.30am and 9am.
In the evening between 6pm and
7pm, they will be charged $1.
Those passing the gantry after
North Buona Vista towards Tuas in the evening will charged $1
between 6pm and 6.30pm, and $2 between 6.30pm and 7pm.
In its latest quarterly review
of ERP rates, the LTA announced other changes. Motorists heading
for the city on the East Coast Parkway (ECP) between 7.30am and 8am
will no longer have to pay ERP. Previously, the charge was
$1.
This affects those entering
the ECP via the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway too.
And westbound motorists on the
Marina Coastal Expressway before the exit to Maxwell Road and slip
road to Marina Coastal Drive between 8.30am and 9am will pay $2
instead of $3 previously
