The Council of Ministers’ July 14th edict to reduce tolls for Class 2, 3 and 4 goods vehicles on the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway has been approved and will start in August.
The reduction includes additional motorways in the country’s interior and is all part of a National Programme for Territorial Cohesion.
The Ministry of Infrastructure hopes the reduction will help businesses and cross-border links with the new measures reducing Class 2, 3 and 4 good vehicle tolls by 15% in the day and 20% at night, after 20:00. These classes represent around 5% of motorway road journeys.
Large goods vehicles get a 25% discount whenever they use these roads if their head office in is the country's interior.
The reductions are politically well-timed as on the 18th of July there is a vote on a Left Bloc proposal to scrap the Algarve’s tolls and to fix the EN125 eastern section.
The Left Bloc says that the dangerous EN125, with an increased traffic load due to motorway tolls, has increased the number road accidents, many of them fatal.
