PLUS records growth in traffic

PLUS Expressways Bhd, which manages the North-South Expressway, New Klang Valley Expressway, Federal Highway Route 2 and Seremban-Port Dickson Highway, announced a traffic volume of 1,403.8 million passenger car unit kilometre (PCU-km) in November 2010, up 8.6 per cent compared with the same period last year.

For the 11-month period ended November 2010, traffic increased by 7.3 per cent to 14,605.4 million PCU-km from the previous corresponding period, it said in a filing to Bursa Malaysia today.

Meanwhile, its ELITE (North-South Expressway Central Link) unit recorded 138.4 million PCU-km in Nov 2010, a 13.9 per cent increase from the corresponding period.

Year-to-date, traffic for ELITE rose by 12.2 per cent to 1,452 million PCU-km against the same period last year. -- Bernama