I find it unreasonable and illogical that ERP is used as a 'safety measure' for the longest underground tunnel in SE Asia. 16 ERPs within a 9km stretch. I think safety measures should be like asking cars not to drive below 50km/h or above 70km/h and like asking the cars not to switch lanes. I think there's no need for ERP because countries like Taiwan have did it for much longer stretch without a single ERP in the tunnel and yet the cars are able to travel in an orderly manner above the minimum speed.
Anyway, you won't know when there's heavy traffic in the tunnel and when you head your car in that direction, you will probably get caught in a jam and yet pay ERP. So that defeats the purpose of reducing traffic isn't it? Because you don't even know the traffic condition inside until you enter. Anyway, they say ERP lets you go home faster and save your fuel because you are able to travel at a closer to optimum speed. Let's see, if you go through all 16ERPs and if say each ERP charges just $0.50, you would have to pay $8. $8 just by driving your car through a jammed 9km road. I think your fuel cost lesser if you travel say extra 2-3km and not use the tunnel. I just think the ERP thing is quite ridiculous because it doesn't solve the root cause of the problem. It's just like road A jam, I put ERP there, now road A is smooth while road B jams, ok, I put ERP at road B. Huh? Isn't that back to square/rectangle/quadrilateral one?
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