Saturday, August 23, 2014

Network of toll roads increased by 264 km. And this is not the end – Interia

Network toll roads in the system viaTOLL expands on sections with a total length of 264 km. At the end of the fees will be covered by a total of 2917 km of national roads, expressways and motorways managed by GDDKiA.

ViaToll covers another way

/ Wojciech Stóżyk / Reporter

Currently, the system is valid for 2653 km of roads in Poland. A spokesman for the project viaTOLL, Dorothy Prochowicz announced during a press conference in Gdansk that from September 1 under the sixth phase of expansion already planned to introduce tolls on sections with a total length of 206 km.

New episodes covered by the viaTOLL from September are: the A1 motorway, from node to node Czerniewice Wloclawek West and along Świerklany – Gorzyczki (state border); on the A4 motorway viaTOLL system will apply the section from the West to the node Jaroslaw Korczowa. On the road S8 will be incorporated into the sections between nodes: Sycow East and Wielun and Graces and Rzgow. On the road S14 is turned on the section between nodes Pabianice North – Rose, and the path between the nodes S19 Rzeszow West-Świlcza. Charging system will also be covered by the section on National Road No. 90 between the towns of Deer (from the junction of the national road No. 91) and Baldr (from the junction of the national road No. 55); section includes a bridge over the Vistula k. Kwidzyń.

it is reported that from October 1 as part of the further enlargement of the system is to be implemented in two motorway sections with a total length of 58 km. They are: on the A1 between nodes Wloclawek West – Smith and A4, between nodes Debica East – North Rzeszow.

Prochowicz announced that the planned extension will most toll roads in regions of Lower Silesia (339 km) and Lodz (338 km) and the least in Lublin (37.5 km) and Podlasie (7 km).

informed that since the beginning of the system, ie from July 2011. until the end of July. the National Road Fund received a total of more than 3,313 billion zł from fees. The money is earmarked for the construction, upgrading and maintenance of roads. The most profitable routes are Highway. Only A4 toll for the last six months received 183 million zł, and A2 – 80 million zł.

average daily viaTOLL system affects 3.8 million zł. The rates for road use are dependent on the permissible total weight of the vehicle, road class and the amount of emissions of the vehicle.

A spokeswoman for the project believes that the introduction of the system contributed to the improvement of the technical condition of cars on Polish roads. “Whereas in 2011. Ran mostly older vehicles, so now run mainly cars newer and greener” – explained.

The electronic toll collection viaTOLL runs from 3 July 2011. During the initial phase consisted of approx. 1565 km of national roads, expressways and motorways managed by GDDKiA. The system is successively extended by a further road sections. Decisions to extend the network of roads taken by the Council of Ministers. The contract to build the system viaTOLL specifies that by the end of 2018. System will include seven thousand. km of roads in Poland.

Currently, the system registered 815 thousand. vehicles. The system can also use car drivers on the highway A2 between Konin-Stryków and A4 from Gliwice-Wroclaw. With this option uses approx. 15 thousand. passenger vehicles.

Fees shall be collected from vehicles with a maximum mass exceeding 3.5 tonnes and buses, regardless of their weight, minibuses with more than 9 seats and passenger vehicles with large trailers, when the total mass exceeding 3.5 tonnes .

The penalty for passing each section of the toll road without due fee is 3 thousand. zł. The penalties should soon change, because the signature of the President is waiting amended Act specifies new rules to punish drivers.

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