US EditionPossible Tolls on Reykjanesbraut and Suðurlandsvegur: "These Plans Must Not Go Ahead"
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The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs states that it may be possible to consider incorporating structures along Reykjanesbraut and Suðurlandsvegur into a planned infrastructure company. This would allow tolls to be collected on all major routes to and from the capital area. An Independence Party MP strongly criticizes the idea.
"With such measures, tolls would be collected on all major routes to and from the capital area."
The government is considering resuming toll collection at the Hvalfjörður Tunnel and introducing tolls on Reykjanesbraut and Suðurlandsvegur to finance an infrastructure company that the government plans to establish. This is stated in the explanatory statement of the bill by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs that was distributed to the Alþingi yesterday. The infrastructure company is intended to cover the development of major transpo…
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