LTA revises ERP rates at 6 gantries

SINGAPORE: Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) charges at certain gantries along the Central Expressway (CTE) and Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) will be adjusted from 7 May.

Motorists using the southbound CTE before Braddell Road between 9am and 11am will not have to pay ERP charges.

Currently, they pay 50 cents.

Motorists using the PIE slip road into CTE between 7.30am and 8am will pay 50 cents less - at S$3.00.

However, ERP rates for four gantries along the southbound CTE after Braddell Road will go up.

The rate will increase by 50 cents - from S$1.50 to S$2 - between 7.30am and 8am.

Between 8am and 8.30am, they'll have to pay S$3, an increase of S$1.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Monday that it adjusted the rates as part of its quarterly review of traffic conditions on ERP-priced roads and expressways.

The next ERP review will take place in May for the June school holidays.

More than $400m collected from ERP over 3 years

In the past three years, the Government has collected more than $400 million in revenue from drivers who pay for Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) charges, The Straits Times reported on Wednesday.

This was revealed in Parliament on Wednesday when Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew responded to a question by Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Lina Chiam.

For the financial year 2009, the Government collected $149 million.

For FY2010, it collected $159 million. And for FY2011 up to end-October, a total of $97 million was collected, the report added.


Mr Lui emphasised that the ERP system is to 'manage congestion and not generate revenue', the report said.

The Nicoll Highway gantry collects the biggest amount in terms of weekday revenue, Mr Lui said. It collects about $32,000 daily on average.

At the other end lies the gantry along Upper Boon Keng, which collects about $130 daily on average.