Castro Marim wants motorway tolls suspended until Guadiana Bridge renovations are completed
Castro Marim council is calling on the government to suspend the tolls on the Algarve’s A22 motorway until the “long-overdue” renovation works on the International Guadiana Bridge are finally completed.
CUVI slams minister for remarks about drivers “saving lots of money” on A22
Anti-tolls group CUVI has called Portuguese minister Pedro Marques an “embarrassment” following his remarks about how drivers have saved “hundreds of thousands of euros” since the government lowered toll prices
Algarve toll prices drop 15% on August 1
Toll prices on five Portuguese motorways – including the Algarve’s A22 – are going to drop 15% on August 1. The news was confirmed by Portugal’s Infrastructure Minister Pedro Marques.
Conflicting reports over Algarve’s A22 toll reduction
Portuguese media has been buzzing this morning with conflicting stories about when the price of tolls on Portugal’s formerly-free motorways – including the Algarve’s A22 – will be lowered. Jornal
ACRAL fears A22 toll prices may drop just “15%”
ACRAL, the Algarve retailers’ association, is worried the government may want to reduce the region’s A22 motorway toll prices by just 15% – a far cry from the 50% reduction
New anti-toll protests planned for EN125
A new series of protests calling for the end of the Algarve’s A22 motorway tolls will take place on Sunday and Monday (June 19-20) over several stretches of the EN125.
A22 Toll prices to finally drop this summer
It’s still a far cry from five-year calls by anti-toll groups to abolish them once and for all, but the Portuguese government has finally confirmed that several motorway charges –
Millions dodge Portugal’s tolls
A million vehicles passed through Portugal’s traditional tolls network during 2015 without paying, Via Verde spokesperson Margarida Cordeiro has announced. Of these, “more than 500,000 paid up voluntarily”, but the
New protests take to the Algarve’s roads for Easter
Two protests are taking to the Algarve’s roads this week – one this (Thursday) morning on the Guadiana Bridge and the other on Saturday (March 26) on the rundown EN124
Easter traffic chaos predicted as PM urged to scrap A22 tolls “once and for all”
After years of trying to convince the previous government to do away with the Algarve’s A22 motorway tolls, MP João Vasconcelos has now sent an open letter to Prime Minister