Kuala Lampur, Feb. 13 -- Instead of a 50 per cent discount for private vehicles during festive holidays, how about this idea?

Don't give the 50 per cent discount. Let vehicle owners pay their share.

What of the RM80 million the government need not pay toll concessionaires?

Pass the money to express buses, intercity trains and airlines. Subsidise mass transportation rather than private transportation as they do in the saner parts of the world.

People who own private vehicles do not need incentives to travel further during holidays.

It's the abused visual, of how occupants of 10 cars can fill a bus therefore utilise less road space, which then leads to less traffic. Trite but true.

Bus people maximise road utilisation, and train and p...