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Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rates will be reduced by $1.00 per Passenger Car Unit (PCU), and by $0.50 where the current ERP rate is $0.50 per PCU.

This was announced by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in a press release on Monday (12 November) as it has completed its review of the rates for the December 2018 school holidays.

The authority stated that the ERP rates at the following roads and expressways will apply from Saturday, 17 November 2018 to Monday, 31 December 2018. The rates for the other gantries will remain unchanged.

As Tuesday, 1 January 2019 is a public holiday, LTA noted that the ERP rates will revert to the pre-school holiday rates from Wednesday, 2 January 2019 onwards.

The next ERP rate review will take place in February 2019 for the first quarterly rate review of 2019.

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