Driving home early for the Spring Festival, some friends choose to take the national highway, which can save some money. But sometimes, you can also meet a toll station on the national highway, passing by 15 yuan and 20 yuan. What happened?
In fact, there are still many national highways with toll stations. In fact, the national toll station is really not a case. Many provinces have it. There are 3,400 toll stations in China, which sounds like a lot, but compared with a few years ago, the number has decreased a lot.
For example, in Jiangsu, at the end of 2002, there were *** 1 10, while in 20021year, there were only 22 ordinary highway toll stations in Jiangsu Province. During the period of 19, toll stations were reduced by 80%, not to mention more roads were built.
Why do national highways charge? What's so special about these national highways that are still charging?
Why do you charge?
The main reason is that the main body paying for road construction is different. Free national roads are basically funded and maintained by local governments. And the national highway that charges is actually not a financial allocation to do this. Building a national highway, although not as expensive as an expressway, actually involves a lot of investment. Let's find a case to give you a feel.
Wei Wenfeng, Shanxi Provincial Traffic Planning Survey and Design Institute, published the paper "Sichuan Building Materials, Analysis and Evaluation of Investment Benefit of Operating Toll Roads under the New Situation".
There is a case: a large state-owned enterprise in Shanxi Province plans to invest in a transit section of a national highway in a city. The whole section adopts the standard of four-lane first-class highway, with a design speed of 80km/h and a total length of 59.982km, with an estimated investment of more than 7 billion yuan.
Where the economy is not so developed, if such a national highway is to be built, there will be great financial pressure. At this time, you will choose to borrow money or find other economic organizations to invest. You must repay the money you borrowed. How come? The loan can only be repaid by charging a certain toll.
Is the charging standard expensive compared with high speed?
How is the national highway toll standard determined? Is it more expensive or cheaper than high speed? Generally, national highway toll stations adopt fixed fees, and different models charge fixed fees. For example, cars, generally1above 0 yuan, 20 yuan.
For example, the charging standard of Honghe Toll Station on Zhejiang National Highway 320 is 7 or less buses 15 yuan. This toll station, of course, was cancelled in June 5438+10 this year.
National Highway in Jiangsu 104 Liyang Toll Station, 7 passenger cars or less, each time 10. If the average charge is per kilometer, the charging standard of national highway is much cheaper than that of expressway.
For example, Liyang Toll Station/Liyang section of national highway KLOC-0/04, with a total length of 52.69 1km, and bus 10 yuan. If you count, 1 gross 9/km, there is still 20 gross left. The high-speed charging standard in Jiangsu Province is 45 cents/km for buses, which is more than 20 cents more expensive than national highways.
But if you live near the toll booth, it's only that section that is still the only way to and from work. If you have to pay every day, you can't spread it all over, can you? A year later, it's not small money. It must be expensive.
By going up one flight of stairs, a friend who smokes, so some friends will choose a detour. When can I cancel the charge? Whether it's expensive or not, it's money, right? No charge is definitely the best. So, when will the national toll station be cancelled? In fact, this is clearly stipulated. Article 14 of the Regulations on the Management of Toll Roads: The longest toll period for repayment of loans shall not exceed 15 years.
If it is in the central and western regions, the longest period is no more than 20 years; The longest charging period for operating roads shall not exceed 25 years; Midwest, 30 years. The actual charging period is much shorter than this, and many toll stations are basically cancelled in advance.
Take Honghe Toll Station of National Highway 320 as an example. Vehicle tolls were collected in 2002. The original charging period was until 2032, and it was directly cancelled by the end of 2022, which was 10 years ahead of schedule.
Some friends also said, does canceling the toll in advance mean that the toll is quite profitable? The loan was recovered several years in advance. I think too much, I can cancel the charge in advance. Many times, local governments directly make up the money that is still missing. To put it bluntly, we didn't have enough money before, but now we have enough money, so we will repay in advance.
Taking Hohhot as an example, 202 1 was reported, and the Hohhot municipal government considered the local people's livelihood and economic development. By repurchasing the right to operate the remaining toll period of the expressway, two toll stations from Hohhot to Helin section of National Highway 209 will be cancelled in advance.
The charging standard on the national highway is cheaper than that on the expressway.
Generally speaking, although there are toll stations on national highways, the charging standards are generally much cheaper than those on expressways. Moreover, national toll stations will not always exist. In fact, many of them have been cancelled over the years.