Motorcyclists won’t be charged to make use of Malaysia’s toll highways, the freeway authority mentioned, opposite to social media posts claiming charges can be collected from October 2025. The company is conducting assessments for an open toll system that makes use of licence plate recognition expertise, however two-wheelers stay exempt, a spokesperson instructed AFP.
“Motorcyclists will get to expertise paying tolls beginning October 2025,” reads textual content overlaid on a picture of a automobile subsequent to a digicam at a toll plaza shared on Fb on August 9, 2025.
Its Malay-language caption sarcastically says, “thanks PMx”, utilizing a nickname for Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Screenshot of the false Fb submit captured on August 26, 2025, with a purple X added by AFP
The identical graphic concerning the purported toll for motorcyclists was shared throughout Fb, Instagram and TikTok, surfacing as Malaysia started testing a brand new tolling system that makes use of “Automated Quantity Plate Recognition (ANPR)” to ease visitors on the nation’s highways, with wider implementation throughout the nation anticipated in October (archived hyperlink).
Nevertheless, there are at present no plans to cost two-wheelers for using toll highways, the Malaysian Freeway Authority mentioned.
Motorcyclists are legally exempted from paying tolls on highways beneath the Federal Roads (Non-public Administration) Act 1984, in keeping with the federal authorities gazette (archived hyperlink). There have been no official bulletins that this can change, as of August 27, 2025.
Key phrase searches on Google led to an August 10 Fb submit on the Malaysia Works Ministry’s official account studying: “BE AWARE OF FAKE NEWS” (archived hyperlink).
The ministry labelled the circulating graphic as “faux”.
Screenshot of the Malaysia Ministry of Works assertion on Fb captured August 26, 2025
In the meantime, the Malaysian Freeway Authority (LLM) additionally launched a assertion on its official Fb account clarifying there was no change to the classes of autos topic to tolls, which excludes bikes (archived hyperlink).
“The submit contained inaccurate data that would trigger misunderstanding amongst freeway customers and will unnecessarily alarm motorcyclists and hurt the popularity of the federal government, the works ministry, LLM and the affected freeway concessionaires,” the assertion additional learn.
A spokesperson for the LLM instructed AFP on August 18 that the brand new plate recognition expertise will even not contain motorcyclists since two-wheeled motor autos are usually not required to pay toll when utilizing the freeway.
