Motorway tolls rise 0.84% ​​as of January 1 - La Provincia

Heaverage toll priceof the highways that make up the state networkwill rise 0.84%As of January 1, 2020, Europa Press was informed by sources in the sector.

The climb will be applied on all highways dependent on the General State Administration, except in the nine that were 'rescued' by the State to go bankrupt during the crisis and currently managed by the Ministry of Development.

Seittsa, the public firm that exploits these routes does so through a non-concession contract, so the rise set for concession contracts is not applied, as they explained to Europa Press in sources of Development.

Thesenine highways, totaling about 700 kilometers, are the four radials of Madrid, the M-12 that connects the capital and the airport, the AP-41 Madrid-Toledo, the AP-36 Ocaña-La Roda and the sections of the AP-7 between Cartagena and Vera, and the Ring Road of Alicante.

The rise for 2020nor will it apply to two other highways, which, at the end of the year, terminate their concession contract, return to the State and suppress the toll collection.

This is the section of the AP-7 between Tarragona, Valencia and Alicante, and the AP-4 between Seville and Cádiz, both currently managed in concession by Abertis. Both follow AP-1 Burgos-Armiñón, which in December 2018 became the first means of payment to complete its concession contract, dismantle toll barriers and revert to the State.

The average rise in tolls for 2020 applies, however, to the bulk of the state network, that is, in a total of1,270 kilometers of payment routes.

Three years of uploads

This is an increase of less than 1.67% and 1.91% that, respectively, were applied in 2019 and 2018. However, it involves chaining three exercises of increases after the decreases recorded in 2016 and 2017.

The update of the average toll road price is the result of aannual automatic review formulathat the sector agreed with the Government in 2002.

This formula has among its main variables the average CPI between the months of October of one year and the next, which is subsequently weighted according to the evolution of traffic.

The new annual tolls update will take place in fulldebate on the need to guarantee maintenance and viabilityof the network of highways and highways of the State, which entails weighing the possible articulation of a toll for the use of highways.

The debate is currently on hold before the government's interim situation, since the last Legislature concluded before the Commission of theCongress of DeputiesI was going to deal with it.

At the moment, the rise in 2020 will be recorded as the state highway network will chain in 2019 a sixth consecutive year of traffic growth.At the end of September, payment methods account for an average of 21,012 users per day. , 4.8% more than a year earlier.