Some tolls on the motorway, the Portuguese will have an increase of five and ten cents from 1 January, getting out of this update 78% of the tolls, that will not have “any increase of price.”
The Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure has indicated today that “the update covers 22% of the rates applied and will only be eur 0.05 in the overall rates of Class 1, being of € 0.10 on a limited number of situations”, adding that “in 78% of cases there will not be any increase of price.”
The tolls of the bridge 25th of April and Vasco da Gama, in Lisbon, will suffer an increase between five and 15 cents. According to the ministry, the updating of toll rates “varies between eur 0.05 (class 1 in both bridges) and € 0.15 (class 4, on the ponte Vasco da Gama”.
The title of example, in the next year, the clients with the vehicles of class 1 are going to pay 1.75 euros on the 25th of April bridge and 2.75 euros in the Vasco da Gama bridge.
The annual revision of the toll rates on motorways enters into force on 1 January 2017, in accordance with the respective concession contracts, which provide for the updating based on the variation of the consumer price index.
The consumer price index of October, excluding housing, which serves as a reference to the annual update of the tolls, was of 0.84%, this being the proposal that the concessionaires of highways have made to the Government.
The update method of the toll road includes a mechanism for rounding of rates to the multiple of five cents nearest to you. That is, if the increases are less than 2.5 cents, the toll will remain unchanged. However, if the increase is more than 2.5 cents, there is a rounding automatic for five cents.
In 2016, the update on the toll rates of highways national covered only 10% of the sections of the routes where there is a charge to users, and in an update of only five cents.
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