Promotion will force highways to maintain toll collectors
Feb 22, 2024 4:22:24 GMT
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Incidents caused by automatic payment systems that do not have personnel to assist drivers have skyrocketed The Government will raise 2.5 billion with the implementation of tolls on all highways. ACS, OHL and Abertis have presented a non-stop charging system to Fomento Attention motorists: the Government is considering raising tolls on highways and charging for highways The concessionaires refuse to support the Development pact with the banks to rescue the toll highways Development informs the concessionaires that they will not receive a euro from the rescue of the bankrupt highways Toll on a Spanish highway. Toll on a Spanish highway. In recent years, more and more toll highways are placing automatic payment stations in their tolls, which makes it possible to dispense with the need for operators in the booths to collect 24 hours a day. The concessionaire companies of these payment routes are betting on these systems to save costs significantly by requiring many fewer operators to occupy the collection booths. In this way, different automatic payment systems have been installed , in which drivers pay the amount into a machine so that the barrier is raised to continue the trip.
Companies have only set up remote service offices and cars with operators to go and resolve incidents that arise at these payment points. This has caused incidents reported by users and operators of toll highways to skyrocket in recent years . At least one operator at any time of the day As El Confidencial Digital has learned , this has provoked the reaction of the Ministry of Public Works , which is going to try to tackle this problem that has increased in these payment methods. A few weeks ago the ministry sent a communication to the highway concession companies to indicate that at each toll there must be, 24 hours a day, at least one operator to manually charge the drivers. Official sources from the ministry led by Ana Pastor admit that there has been this communication to the companies: they assure that it Denmark Mobile Number List is a reminder that current legislation must be complied with, which establishes that dealerships must guarantee service at any time of the day. In this way, Fomento intends that highways that have tolls in which at some times, for example during the night, there are no operators , but only automatic machines that charge.
In a recent meeting between unions of highway operators and the secretary general of Infrastructure of the ministry, Development explained that to guarantee that the obligation to have at least one collector at each toll 24 hours a day is met, there will be inspectors who will be sent to these places. Concessionaire companies that fail to comply with this obligation will have to face economic sanctions . Substantial increase in incidents As ECD has learned , in Public Works they are aware, from the recorded data that they receive, that in recent years there has been a "substantial" increase in incidents that occur at toll crossings. The unions of highway operators assure that since the automatic payment systems began to be installed , through machines and not workers in booths, incidents have skyrocketed: in some cases, such as the AP-7 that runs from Tarragona to Alicante, driver complaints have grown by 1,000% since these automated tolls were widely implemented. There are numerous incidents that cause long queues at automatic tolls: for example, errors made by users when inserting bills and coins, etc. To resolve them, highway workers come in, but already this summer the problems have worsened with some attacks: for example, in Catalonia the Mossos d'Esquadra have had to go on occasion to respond to attacks by drivers who were "stuck" in front of a road.