{"id":16128,"date":"2023-01-18T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16128"},"modified":"2023-01-18T17:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:21:43","slug":"no-toll-on-jan-20-and-21-in-conjunction-with-cny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16128","title":{"rendered":"No toll on Jan 20 and 21 in conjunction with CNY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kuala Lumpur, Jan 18<\/strong> &#8212; Highway users nationwide will be exempted from paying toll on Jan 20 and 21 in conjunction with Chinese New Year, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the toll-free rides would cover all classes of vehicles with an allocation of RM40 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The works and transport ministries have already discussed with the highway concessionaires to allow toll exemption on Jan 20 and 21.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg\" alt=\"toll\" class=\"wp-image-3977\" width=\"567\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-166x100.jpg 166w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-350x210.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-800x481.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is to enable all Malaysians, not only the Chinese but also the Malays and Indians who may want to return to their hometown for the holidays,&#8221; he told a press conference after chairing a Cabinet meeting in Putrajaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also reminded all road users to drive carefully and comply with the traffic rules and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lunar New Year falls on Jan 22 and 23 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2157235\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur, Jan 18 &#8212; Highway users nationwide will be exempted from paying toll on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg",1000,601,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway-768x462.jpg",640,385,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg",640,385,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg",1000,601,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg",1000,601,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg",1000,601,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg",1000,601,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/plus-highway.jpg",720,433,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16129,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions\/16129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}