Allow toll increases between 35% and 66% in the city and routes across the country

The Buenos Aires government convened a public hearing on Jan. 3, with the aim of determining the new tariffs in the May 25 tolls, Perito Moreno and Illia, but the same is not binding.

As reported Urban highways (AUSA), May 25, Perito Moreno motorists will pay 60 pesos in rush hour and 85 pesos in hour of high congestion, which represents an adjustment of up to 34.9%.

In the Illia, the toll will rise from 19 to 25 pesos (31.5%) during off-peak hours and 28 to 35 pesos (25%) during peak hours.

Motorcyclists will have to bear the biggest rises since they must pay an increase of 66.6%.

Hike Once approved the increase, the cost of tolls between CABA and Mar del Plata during the season, round trip, will be 360 ​​pesos.

On May 25 and Perito Moreno, rates will rise from 17 to 25 pesos (47 percent) and from 28 to 40 pesos (42 percent), depending on the time slot; in Illia, values ​​will rise from 9 to 15 pesos (66.6%) and from 11 to 18 pesos (63%).

L & # 39; Company AUSA, a highways dealer, reported that the rush hour in business days is in both directions of traffic (from 7:00 to 11:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00), while outside of workdays it is 11 am: 00h00 to 15h00 in the direction of the province and from 17h00 to 21h00 until the center of the city.

Access and national roads

The National Directorate of Roads approved on new tariff tables for six road corridors, including the 18 that runs about 700 km from the Uruguay River Road and the Rosario-Victoria Bridge (national highways 12, 14, 135, A-015, 177 and 174), the number 2 that joins the general Villegas and Pergamino (national road 188), and the number 3 that runs through 800 kilometers from the city of Santiago de Selva to San Pedro de Jujuy by the national roads 9 and 34.

The tolls of road corridors 4 (Selva-Rosario and Córdoba-Concordia, national roads 19 and 34), the 6 (933 kilometers of national roads 12 and 16 at Misiones, Chaco and Corrientes) and the 688 kilometers of Routes 8 and 36 and A-005, from the city of Mercedes to Buenos Aires Pilar, pbading through the south of Santa Fe.

The decision of the government was made official Wednesday by the Ministry of Transport in the resolutions 2342 and 2369 published in the Official Journal, with the signature of Patricia Mabel Gutiérrez, head of the DNV.

The resolutions indicate that tolls will be raised in six road corridors: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 18.

On the other hand, Grupo Concesionario del Oeste proposed to raise the rate for motorcyclists of the current 17 and 28 pesosfor normal hours and peak hours, up to 23 and 38 pesos, respectively, which represents an increase of 35% in both cases.

For motorists, the values ​​range from 28 and 50 pesos to 38 and 65 pesos, also at normal and peak hours.

• Compensation

The government will compensate the concessionaires of the west and north accesses to the federal capital, because of the impact of a devaluation higher than expected and the "decline in car traffic by 5% higher than expected" .

The decision was formalized today by resolution 2369/2018 published in the Official Journal under the signature of the head of the National Roads Directorate, Patricia Mabel Gutiérrez.

The official said the opening of the previous procedure that provided for the participation of citizens in the renegotiation of the northern access concession contracts with the company Autopistas del Sol and West, with the Concesionario Oeste group.