The Kuala Lumpur city council together with the Government proposed to introduce the VEP (Vehicle Entry Permit) for cars entering the city centre in an attempt to reduce traffic congestion and also air pollution in KL City. this is similar to that introduced in London several years ago. However despite the idea being a logical one there little thought that went into its proposed implementation. Neither the city council nor the government actually worked out the mechanism on how to charge the cars that entered the city during the chargeable hours!
this is very typical in the way which Malaysian government related agencies function. Mooting ideas is not the problem but seeing through their ideas is the problem.
It would not be practical to install toll gates as this will increase the traffic problem and slow traffic down tremendously, secondly there is no space to put up toll booths. The permit collection system is simply not available and it is not like how it is done in Singapore where the ERP gantry system works very efficiently to collect fees from the car wirelessly without stopping.
The current Smartag solution available is out of date and cannot be used in such a case. The Smartag system is not effective enough as the cars have to be driven below 10km/h for it to read, this will cause a problem if it was implemented.
It is quite silly to want to impose such rulings without having a suitable solution available in the first place. It is little wonder why the Malaysian public always laugh at the Government as they constantly contradict themselves and have no ideas how to solve problems that are presented to them.
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