You are on page 1of 3

ELC590

SAMPLE PREPARATION OUTLINE


PERSUASIVE SPEECH
Students Name

: Muhammad Izzat Bin Abdul Razak

Metric Number

: 2016218012

Faculty / Group

: Civil Engineering / EC2204D

Lecturers Name

: Prof. Madya Dr. Krishnakumari

Title
: Tolls On Roads and Expressways Should Be Abolished
Organisational Pattern : Monroes Motivated Sequence
Visual Aid
: Power point slides
General Purpose
: To persuade
Specific Purpose
: To persuade my audience to oppose the implementation of tolls on our
roads and expressways.
Central Idea
: Implementation of tolls on our roads posed many disadvantages and
burdens to the people. Therefore, we must change the system or the
oppression to the people will go on.
Introduction
I.
II.
III.
IV.

V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.

Most of everyone have at least one car per family for the means our transportation.
We use it to travel from a place to another around cities and even countries.
Especially in the city, we will encounter at least one toll booth during our daily
commute.
A. There are 21 expressways in Klang Valley area alone.
I want all of you to ask yourself do the amount charged in our toll booths are really
justifying the accommodations they really provide?
A. Amount charged for a journey in North-South Expressway from Shah Alam to
Penang or Johor Bahru is around RM45.
B. The toll prices never been reduced but in fact it is getting higher over time since
its first operation.
As a student, I never thought of how much the burdens that our tolls cause to us
citizen, working people and especially to the poor and the low incomes.
After experiencing it almost every day, I have done an extensive research for this
speech, road and expressways tolls should be abolished.
Today, I hope to persuade each of you oppose the implementation of tolls and
support its abolishment.
Because its implementation pose many disadvantages and burdens to the people,
we must against the tolls system or the injustice and oppression will go on forever.

(Transition: Lets look more closely on why these tolls should be abolished.)
Body
I.

Although expressways and new roads provides faster and shorter driving distance,
the price of tolls charged are really does not justify the benefits it gives.
A. The government are responsible in providing the infrastructure needed and that
benefits its people.

1. North-South Expressway construction cost is only RM5.9 billion.


a. However, according to Works Minister Datuk Fadillah
Yusof, the overall toll collected was RM36.39 billion at the
end of 2015.
b. Even if we took into account maintenance and widening of
roads, such extra cost cannot exceed this RM36.39 billion
collected from the public said Lim Guan Eng, Penang
chief minister.
2. Toll roads are literally a monopoly sanctioned and protected by the
state.
a. Citizen and highway users have no channel to influence
toll road management and pricing decisions.
b. Upgrades and improvements to any highway viewed as
competing with the toll road are likely to be ignored.

B. Greatly reduce and avoid serious traffic congestions on our daily commute.
1. Queuing to pay the tolls really took a lot of time.
a. One can queue for as long as 30 mins in rush hour to
reach the toll booths.
2. Blocked roads due too long queues at the toll booths.
a. Traffic jams can affect kilometers of road blocking users of
touch and go and smart tags.
i. Long queue on ticket lanes blocking the cashless
system lanes.
.
C. Lessen the peoples burden and expenses on transportation.
1. Tolls pricing are highly charged by the private concession
approved by the government.
A. An average toll charged about RM1.50 to RM2.50, people
spend about RM88 a month using this tolled roads.
2. Rebates offered are not really helping the road users.
A. These rebates does not automatically deducted the moment
we pay the tolls. We have to claim it at the PLUS customer
service counter and after 12 months without claim it become
voided.
(Transition: So whats the solution?)
II.

We can counter this problem by making some changes in our toll system and its
pricing.
A. Abolish toll booths on specific very highly congested roads.
B. Change the pricing of the tolls after the construction cost of the roads and
expressways are returned.
C. Implementation of Electronic Road Pricing(ERP) like in Singapore.

(Transition: Our road system will be more efficient and fair if we abolish these tolls or reform the
system.)
III.

There will be serious repercussions if we do not change the way our tolls are
implemented or abolished completely.
A. The situation we are facing now will only get worse in the future.

1. Road congestion will be critically worse as there will be more


vehicles on the road.
2. Expressways concessions will only increase the toll pricing due to
profits and inflations.

Conclusion
I. Tolls on roads and expressways should be abolished as it does not really benefit to the
people and road users.
II. Hence, everyone should be aware how tolls really affect our financial and productivity, all of
us should encourage your friends and family to oppose this sanctioned monopoly.
III. From now on, this injustice and unfair system should be eliminated for the better.
IV. We can prevent the oppression and monopoly by these private concessionaires by standing
and speak up to the government if we all just agree and support that these tolls should be
abolished once and for all.

Reference:
Guan Eng : Abolish North South Highway toll roads. (2016, November 04). Retrieved from
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/print/malaysia/guan-en-abolish-north-south-highway-tollroads/
Intan Zulaika Arfudi. (2015, November 05). Deputy Minister Reveals That RM51 Million In
Highway Toll Rebates Remain Unclaimed [News Article]. Retrieved from http://malaysian
digest.com/news/577680-deputy-minister-reveals-that-rm51-million-in-highway-toll-rebatesremain-unclaimed/
Tom Jackson. (2015, January 19). More Reasons not to build toll roads. Retrieved from
http://www.equipmentworld.com/more-reasons-not-to-build-toll-roads/

You might also like