Socialist MPs propose end to A22 motorway tolls
Tolls have been charged on the A22 since 2011 Algarve MPs for the Socialist Party (PS) are calling for an end to tolls on the country’s formerly free motorways (SCUTs),
PS leader challenges other parties to scrap unpopular (illegal) electronic tolls
Pedro Nuno Santos returns to election pledge PS leader Pedro Nuno Santos has challenged other parties today to follow-through on his party’s electoral pledge to scrap unpopular electronic motorway tolls
Taxpayers to carry burden of motorway toll increase limits “for unlimited years”
UTAO delivers stark ‘reality check’ Government agency UTAO has delivered sobering news for voters carried away by election campaign pledges about abolishing motorway tolls: the country’s taxpayers face “unlimited years”
PS vows to scrap A22 tolls immediately if it wins election
Measure expected to cost €113 million Portugal’s Socialist Party (PS) has gone on the record saying that its “first measure” in the case of a victory in the upcoming legislative
Algarve tolls to go if PS Socialists win elections
“We did something very wrong. We had no right…” PS secretary general Pedro Nuno Santos pledged in Porto to eliminate all tolls on former SCUT highways in the interior of the
Tolls in Algarve/ interior reduce by up to 30%
In spite of the fact that tolls nationally are increasing from today, tolls on former SCUT highways (highways never constructed to be tolled) will be reducing by up to 30%.
Motorway tolls to go up 2.1% in January
Brisa motorway concession insists many tolls “will remain unchanged” Motorway tolls on highways managed by Brisa will increase by 2.1% from January 1, the company has said in a statement.
Road fund tax to increase on old vehicles to pay for motorway toll reductions
Increase will affect poorest citizens The government has revealed the way it will ‘compensate’ itself for reducing the cost of certain motorway tolls (see below). It will increase annual IUC
Toll prices to be cut by 30% on Algarve’s A22 motorway
Discounts will be applied in January 2024 Portugal’s government is going to cut tolls by 30% on several former SCUT (previously free) motorways across the country, including the Algarve’s A22.
New law limits maximum fine for non-payment of motorway tolls
The good news is that there is a new law that limits the maximum fine anyone can receive for non-payment of motorway tolls. The bad news is that it only