National Highway called this Wednesday a space for citizen participation to advance the implementation of a rate increase -in two tranches- of 90% in the tolls of the North and West accesses of the Buenos aires citythe Ezeiza-Cañuelas highway and other road corridors.
The magnitude of the increase responds to the fact that “it seeks to address the price variation registered in certain main components of the items of operation, conservation and maintenance and support services in order to guarantee the level of provision of services,” the agency said in a statement.
The last update was in February of last year, with the exception of the sections granted to Corredores Viales, which had an increase last October thanks to a rate restructuring which included a reduction of the differences between the different tranches.
In any case -according to the recitals- the percentages of increase “result lower than the changes in the cumulative price index until May 2023 and August 2023, computed from February 2022”.
Similarly, in the case of the North and West accesses, the increases are less than the terms agreed in the concession contractsthey remarked from National Highway.
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debut. “As of 0 on Thursday, December 1, the new rates come into force,” they confirmed yesterday from the lines of Autopistas de Buenos Aires (AUBASA), after the authorization established in mid-November.
Increase in tolls
The consultation space, approved through Resolution 681/2023 published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette, will allow information on the rate charts and receive opinions and concerns about them.
Both the rates and the forms to express proposals are already available at www.argentina.gob.ar/obras-publicas/vialidad-nacional and will be available until May 2.
Once the non-binding citizen consultation is finished, the agency’s technical team “will prepare a report compiling the presentations made by the public” and then publicize the final rate table.
As a novelty, all new rates will be rounded in multiples of 50.
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According to the recitals of the resolution, the concessionaires of the corridors – including Autopistas del Sol, Caminos del Río Uruguay, Grupo Concesionario del Oeste and the state-owned Corredores Viales – “stated in general terms the impossibility of obtaining low denomination bills to give the change to the users” and, therefore, “they are forced to reduce the rates”.
In the same way, the monetary differentiation between the automatic payment modalities and those of the manual mode at all toll stations, that is, there will be no more discounts for automatic payment that ranged between 5% and 45%.
Rates, according to each case
Next, the detail according to the calendar.
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May
A category 2 car in the north and west accesses, and the Riccheri highway, which currently pays a fee of between $60 and $100 –depending on whether it is rush hour or not, and the toll station in question- you will pay $100 in non-peak hours and $150 in peak hours.
August
The fee in all three corridors will increase to $150 in non-peak hours and $200 in peak hours.
In the case of a truck with between four and six axles (category 6), these currently pay between $260 and $500, and will go on to pay $400 (non-peak hour) and $600 (peak hour), which will be $600 (peak hour) in August. off-peak) and $800 (peak hour).
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These increases will also be applied to all sections of the road corridors under national jurisdiction that have tolls: I (routes 34 and 9), II (188), III (12 and 16), IV (8, 36 and A-005). , V (19 and 34), VI (9, 193, 34, A-012 and A-008), VII (3, 205 and 226), VIII (7), IX (Ezeiza Cañuelas highway, as well as Riccheri), X (5) and 18 (R12, 14, 135, A-015, 117 and 174).
Source: Ambito
