The Lisbon-Oporto motorway with the biggest increase in tolls – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

The Lisbon-Oporto highway will get 35 cents more expensive in 2017 for class 1, which makes the A1 the route with the largest increase of the toll, followed by the A2 Lisbon-Algarve that goes up 25 cents.

In third place, with an increase of 15 cents, it appears the A22 motorway, known as Via do Infante, in the Algarve, which passes the cost 8,7 euros.

Already the trip lisbon-Porto, Lisbon on the A1 motorway, will cost 21,60 euro and the Lisbon-Algarve on the A2 20,45 euros, with the new tariff of the highway that will enter into force from January 01, updated based on the variation of prices to the consumer.

The update covers 22% of the tolls and will be of five cents in the general rate Class 1, of ten cents in a small number of situations, and in 78% of cases there will not be any increase of price, according to announced the Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure.

The tolls of the bridge 25th of April and Vasco da Gama, in Lisbon, will have an increase that varies between 5 (class 1 in both bridges) and 15 cent (class 4, in Vasco da Gama.

So, next year, the clients with the vehicles of class 1 are going to pay 1.75 euros to cross the bridge April 25 and 2.75 euros in the Vasco da Gama bridge.

also, Brisa Concessão Rodoviária (BCR) points out that “for most of the major routes, the impact of the updates is minimal, and that the inputs of major urban centres (Lisbon and Porto) there are not increases”, as is the case of the A5 Lisbon-Cascais and to the A9 (Crel).

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 upgrade in the toll rates of highways national had covered only 10% of the sections of the routes where there is a charge to users, and an upgrade of only five cents.