Minister of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, Isabel Pardo de Veraraised the possibility of creating a progressive systemin order to take into account the economic capacity of each user. toll application on all highways in the country.
While attending a committee of the House of Representatives to announce the General State Budgets for 2023, Pardo de Vera admitted: current road financing model “unsustainable”. The data point to a deficit of 9,000 million euros.
“It is an unsustainable model. If there was a pact that should be beyond political times, this problem would be solved, but all governments are moving it forward and have done nothing. “It’s not moving so that no one is visible in the photo and the claws come out, but I don’t see Congress as a jungle,” he said.
He then announced that his department would prefer to design the free public transport, which has been implemented in Cercanías and Media Distancia since September, from Istanbul. tax progressiveness perspectivebecause there are duplicate train passengers who can pay the ticket price and others who can’t.
However, the special situation meant that this decision had to be taken and taken as soon as possible. making travel generally free without taking into account everyone’s income. vera brown attributed this progress to the implementation of highway tolls “These measures need to be taken from a progressive perspective,” he said.
In any case he insisted a model will be presented when there is a political consensus on a subject that he believes should be addressed “with the criteria of soil structure, equality and security”.
At next year’s PGE, the Minister of Foreign Affairs reminded that they will allocate. close to 2,700 million euros to maintain and expand the state road networkalmost 9% more than a year ago, with special emphasis on road maintenance.
“We have an obligation to plan a system that allows the financing of the system, does not decrease due to political and economic cycles, allows us to cover maintenance costs, integrate the negative externalities of road transport, and provide the entire network and its modernization. operation. towards an electric future,” he concluded.