Promotion designs 50% discounts for transporters who circulate on express payment lanes throughout the country and stop using national highways soraya, more vice president than ever turnpike. Turnpike. Updatedthe ministry of development Lithuania Phone Number List will meet in january with the transport employers' association to negotiate the details of the plan to divert heavy traffic from conventional roads to toll highways in exchange for bonuses. It plans to expand the discounts to 50% and also the benefited sections compared to the last time the measure was implemented. íñigo de la serna announced this monday, in congress, that the state will subsidize trucks through bonuses to use toll highways in the sections where they coincide with very saturated conventional roads , in order to increase their traffic.
decongest the roads and reduce accidents. The measure was already applied on an experimental basis on six sections of several highways for five months in 2015, between july and november, with bonuses that ranged between 30% and 50% of the toll amount, depending on the section of the highway to be travel. But now, as el confidencial digital has learned from sources in the sector, the spanish confederation of freight transport (cetm) will put on the table in the negotiation with development an improvement in the conditions for this new program , the types of roads and the inclusion of more sections of roads. They will urge fomento to immediately implement “the new plan for diverting trucks to toll highways, “which includes all those that run parallel to national highways ,” thus making use of the entire amount planned in this year's general state budgets.
They recall that, in , the highway sections and 1,360 kilometers, originally projected, were reduced to only six sections and kilometers , while discounts lower than the agreed 50% were established in four of the six sections . Furthermore, they criticize that the part of the year in which the most favorable weather conditions occur was chosen , instead of establishing a complete year , when they consider that the effects of the measure would have made more sense. Disassociate from highway rescue in the cetm they will also try to disassociate themselves from the fact that the government is prepared to pay part of the rescue of the bankrupt toll highways with the money of the truckers. A cost for the state that has been estimated at around 5,000 million euros . To do this, they will demand the “ voluntary nature of the measure ” to give freedom of choice to transport companies and truckers to use the routes they deem most convenient to avoid increasing costs, and due to the needs of the cargo route service and download that they have established.