lazily like… the toll collection doesn’t stop
Traffic jams occurred at many toll stations during the holidays of April 30 and May 1, especially at the gateways to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. There are many reasons for this situation, but the important one is the slow implementation of lane installation non-stop toll collection (ETC).
Slow as a non-stop
Sheet National Army in turn listing the times to complete the non-stop toll collection operation on national highways. The first milestone is at the end of 2019. When the deadline has expired, the Ministry of Transport has applied for a delay of 1 year for the reason of lack of funds. Up to this point, the non-stop toll collection on national highways has not been completed.
Currently, only 63 stations have installed 100% of ETC lanes out of 113 toll stations nationwide. (Photo: VGP)
“Not enough automatic toll collection: Will the toll collection be stopped?”, a question in the newspaper Youth after the Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The issued the conclusion on the implementation of automatic toll collection (ETC).
In this conclusion, the Minister assigned the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam to consider stopping toll collection for toll stations managed by the Ministry without completing the ETC installation schedule on schedule. By the end of June, if the implementation does not meet the schedule, the Ministry will report to the competent authorities to take measures to handle the responsibility of the individuals and groups concerned.
Breaking progress
Sheet Youth Comments: “Many times the Ministry of Transport has asked for beggars, asked for a delay or to learn from experience, and no investor, individual or unit of the Ministry of Transport has been responsible.” Even the latest timeline given by the Minister of stopping toll collection for projects that have not yet been installed ETC by the end of June is not feasible. The reason is that the four major expressways under the management of the Vietnam Expressway Development Investment Corporation have just cleared the problems of procedures, so it is also very difficult to achieve this goal.
Why does the fee collection not stop the slow implementation?
Why is there this delay when automatic toll collection without stopping is considered the right policy, a solution to help the toll collection be transparent, and avoid fraud, which has been an issue in public opinion for many years?
According to the magazine’s analysis Business Forum, one of the reasons for the delay is that BOT investors don’t want to do it. They don’t want to be transparent about the revenue they charge. Another reason is the monopoly in the implementation of automatic toll collection that does not stop. If automatic toll collection is deployed without stopping, the investor will assign the entire toll collection right to the Vietnam Expressway Development Investment Corporation. This means that investors spend thousands of billions of dong on projects, then assign them to another company to manage and collect fees, so many BOT investors are not interested in this type of fee collection.
However, there is another reason National Army When quoting a member of the National Assembly once expressed: “The public has suspected that the non-application of automatic toll collection is a concealment of revenue. In fact, the inspection also discovered hidden manual toll stations. did not properly declare the source of income as it actually is”.
Currently, only 63 stations have installed 100% of ETC lanes out of 113 toll stations nationwide. Public opinion wants the State authorities to clarify the responsibility leading to this delay, ensuring transparency and efficiency. Public opinion also wants the tax agency to need to connect the data system, monitor the revenue corresponding to the traffic volume through the toll stations to monitor the capital recovery process as well as the tax payment obligations of the taxpayers. investment.
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