Seven highway tolls to be canceled
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 09:24
Twenty-nine highway tolls and 30 toll stations in Zhejiang Province will be canceled on May 1, according to an official statement. In addition, 11 highway toll stations will stop charging extra road fees. Seven highway toll stations in Ningbo will be canceled, said an official from Ningbo Highway Administration bureau last Sunday.
According to Zhejiang transportation authorities, from 2005 to 2011, 78 highway toll stations had been canceled (including 46 toll stations of second-class highways financed by government loans). Last June, the Ministry of Transport, together with four other State departments, launched a nationwide campaign to eradicate unreasonable and over-extended toll charges. In the wake of the campaign, Zhejiang Province stopped 62 highway toll collectors from seven cities in Zhejiang. Twenty-nine items of fees and 30 toll stations have been canceled. Eleven highway toll stations stopped charging extra road fees. The move is expected to reduce 320 million yuan in highway tolls.
