Decided to charge the driver when the tunnel was being repaired and the apology ‘tricky’
Ignoring the driver’s complaints and despite the direction of the Directorate for Roads, the investor of the Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia tunnel project still resolutely did not reduce the toll with the argument that ‘passing is caused by the driver. prefer’.
Do not ‘eat cake’ still have to pay!
That is a metaphorical way of saying that drivers driving on Highway 1A passing through TT-Hue province have whispered to each other in the past few days when talking about the unreasonable behavior of the investor of the Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia road tunnel. .
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| It takes about 10 minutes for the driver to wait for the lane to pass through Phuoc Tuong tunnel |
Previously, on March 16, Deo Ca Group Joint Stock Company (the investor of the Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia tunnel BOT project) Notice of temporary suspension of one-lane traffic through Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia tunnel for renovation and repair.
Specifically, according to the plan, from March 16 to April 9, vehicles traveling in the direction from the South to the North must travel along the route of Phuoc Tuong pass. From April 9 to April 29, vehicles traveling in the direction from the South to the North must travel along the Phu Gia pass route.
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What makes the public angry is that although the car has to go through the pass, when passing the Bac Hai Van Toll Station (invested by the Deo Ca Group Joint Stock Company), the vehicles still have to pay the same toll as crossing the road. tunnel.
Specifically, drivers still have to pay the combined fee for using 3 road tunnels Phuoc Tuong, Phu Gia and Hai Van with a fee of 108,000-278,000 VND/vehicle at Bac Hai Van Toll Station as before.
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Sharing with VietNamNet, a container truck driver from the South to the North said that the fee of 278,000 VND for the 40-foot container he is running is the whole fee through the Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia tunnel (Phu Loc district, TT-province). Hue).
‘Paying fees for 3 tunnels and now only going to one or two tunnels, should the investor have to deduct the fee for the driver? This is because they (the investor) repaired the tunnel, traffic jams forced us to go through the pass, but who wants to.
No one can accept the way they don’t “eat cake” and still have to pay like this,’ the driver shared.
The ‘tricky’ apology?
According to the drivers, the fact that the investor of the Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia road tunnel “puts on the neck” of the driver to collect enough tolls when they do not use the service is a lack of both love and reason.
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| Not patient enough to wait, many drivers have to take the pass |
After many drivers spoke up and the press reflected, the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam (Ministry of Transport) had a written request to deduct tolls for vehicles not traveling through the Phuoc Tuong-Phu Gia tunnel.
The General Department of Roads requires the BOT enterprise, the investor of the Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia tunnel project, to implement a traffic organization plan when construction on the road is being operated in accordance with regulations, creating favorable conditions for traffickers. Vehicles move through the tunnel quickly and safely.
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| In the tunnel workers are repairing |
In the case of large vehicle traffic, it is imperative to divide the vehicles traveling on the pass, the business side must have a plan to deduct the toll for vehicles not traveling through the road tunnels of Phuoc Tuong and Phu Gia.
It is worth mentioning that, after the Directorate for Roads directed, the investor decided not to deduct toll fees for vehicles, but used a new “trick”, still “stretching” the driver to collect money.
As noted by VietNamNet, on the afternoon of March 23, there were still local traffic jams in the north and south of Phuoc Tuong tunnel. At one point, vehicles were piled up at the tunnel door for hundreds of meters, many drivers who did not accept the “long neck” waiting to be divided into lanes were forced to turn around and drive on the pass.
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| Apologies are placed at the top of the tunnel |
In front of the 2 tunnel doors, many employees of the investor are running around, regulating and dividing lanes. Especially, right from the far side of the tunnel door, the construction unit hastily placed a sign with the content ‘Construction under construction – Sincerely sorry for this inconvenience’.
‘The tunnel does not go, the fee is not reduced, but an apology sign is displayed, it is no different from a cunning word’, a driver looked quickly at the sign, clicked his tongue to express a “disgusted” attitude.
PV VietNamNet has contacted a communications officer of Deo Ca Group Joint Stock Company to better understand why the General Department of Roads has directed, the investor still refuses to reduce the fee for the driver. . However, this person said that this content he could not answer.
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| The driver thinks that the placards with these apology lines are ‘tricky’ to appease the driver’s reaction. |
Meanwhile, Mr. Pham Van Hung – General Director of Phuoc Tuong – Phu Gia Tunnel Management Company said that we are well implementing the direction of the Directorate for Roads because ‘there is a plan to organize traffic during the construction process’. Public works on the road are being exploited in accordance with regulations, creating conditions for vehicles to pass through the tunnel quickly and safely’.
Talking about not reducing tolls for drivers, Mr. Hung said that currently, every day, about 10,000 vehicles pass through the tunnel, there are no vehicles that have to go through the pass, so there is no reduction in tolls.
‘I haven’t seen a vehicle going through a pass all day today…And if it did, we wouldn’t be able to manage it all. Many times going on the pass is because the driver likes it, or the people who travel,’ Mr. Hung said
Quang Thanh
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