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Algarve motorway tolls reduced for commercial vehicles

LorryNorbertDThe Council of Ministers’ July 14th edict to reduce tolls for Class 2, 3 and 4 goods vehicles on the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway has been approved and will start in August.

The reduction includes additional motorways in the country’s interior and is all part of a National Programme for Territorial Cohesion.

The Ministry of Infrastructure hopes the reduction will help businesses and cross-border links with the new measures reducing Class 2, 3 and 4 good vehicle tolls by 15% in the day and 20% at night, after 20:00. These classes represent around 5% of motorway road journeys.

Large goods vehicles get a 25% discount whenever they use these roads if their head office in is the country's interior.

The reductions are politically well-timed as on the 18th of July there is a vote on a Left Bloc proposal to scrap the Algarve’s tolls and to fix the EN125 eastern section.

The Left Bloc says that the dangerous EN125, with an increased traffic load due to motorway tolls, has increased the number road accidents, many of them fatal.

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-1 #2 Ed 2018-07-17 16:25
Quoting Peter Booker:
Who actually runs the toll business? Is it the government, or is it Via Verde? Is Via Verde a government organisation?

Or will the government actually make up the difference, so that the original toll remains unaltered?


In 2016 the Spanish company Ferrovial, through its toll roads management subsidiary Cintra, sold 49% of its Via do Infante concession to the Dutch infrastructure fund manager DIF.

Any gap in tolls collected and the amount agreed in the insanely generous contract that
took pre-toll traffic volume to be the norm, indeed is made up by the general taxpayer. So much for Pedro Passos Coelho-s -user pays- mantra. Here, user pays and then taxpayers chip in tens of millions a year.

The contract is in breach if it is ever revealed to MPs or, God forbids, the public that actually pays for it.

See also:
http://www.algarvemarafado.com/2018/07/17/ex-candidato-presidencial-quer-acabar-com-as-parcerias-publico-privadas-rodoviarias/
0 #1 Peter Booker 2018-07-17 13:49
Who actually runs the toll business? Is it the government, or is it Via Verde? Is Via Verde a government organisation?

Or will the government actually make up the difference, so that the original toll remains unaltered?

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