"You should spend RM5 at new Genting Toll and be okay with it"

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Want to go to Ging for some fresh air fresh air? Too bad. Pay up five ring to drive up to the top starting Thursday.

[00:00:04]Before you go at another tall, here's something that you need to know. That road up to Ging is not government owned.

[00:00:11]It never was. Ging Highland was originally called Gong Ulukali. The resort founder built the road himself back in 1960s. Construction started in 1965. 4 years and around 60 million ring later, the 24 km stretch open. The government didn't pay a single scent.

[00:00:25]Ging did. Over time, people just default this road as public road. When landslide hit, who got played? The government.

[00:00:31]Never mind that Ging has quietly been handling the maintenance and slope repairs for decades. Now, Ging first announced this road charge last year.

[00:00:38]Starting Thursday, it's finally here.

[00:00:40]You pay 5 ringgit per entry for private cars and vans, taxi for three ring 30 cents, bus for 5 ringgit, medium lorries for 15 ringgit, heavy lries for 25 ringgit, motorcycles free, emergency vehicles free. Now, here's where it gets controversial. In 2022, Baham government formally gave Gunding the land title for the main access road. Legally that makes the road private property but a company called GM Aeros support Srian Bahad which owns the land further up the mountain is now suing arguing that this move blocks their only access to their own property. If they are right the title itself could be invalid. That means Gunding is charging a toll on a road whose legal ownership isn't settled yet. And yet if the court rules against the transfer every five ringit collected from day one becomes legally questionable. Then there's the moral question. Other land owners that's on that mountain, people, families will also have to pay ging just to reach their own property. They didn't ask this road to be privatized. They didn't sign an agreement. Yet now the excess is held hostage by a single company. That is not at all. That's ransom. So is the five rank justified. The road belongs to Gunding. The maintenance costs are real.

[00:01:42]The landslides are frequent. Legally, probably for now. But morally, when you charge the people just to drive up a mountain, a mountain that has become a public getaway for millions of people, you're walking up a fine line between cost recovery and a cash grab. Stay informed. Stay ahead.