Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility updated rates tolls between highways State property under administrative concession for 2024 from January 1 It will increase between 5 and 6.65%, depending on the specific conditions of each concession.
The department, headed by Minister Óscar Puente, explains in a note that the rates borne by users in AP-51, AP-61, AP-6, AP-53, AP-66, AP-7 Alicante-Cartagena have been updated. AP-7 Málaga-Guadiaro, AP-68, AP-71, AP-9 and AP-46 were approved by ministerial order.
Transport states that if the currently planned subsidies do not continue in 2024, the increase in tolls will exceed 8.5%.
Reason for allowable increase rise Consumer price index, Extraordinary and temporary measures approved at the end of 2022 to limit the toll increase to 4 percent in 2023, as foreseen in Article 77 of the Law on Financial, Administrative and Social Order Measures.
last year one subsidy to mitigate the effects inflationBecause an increase between 8.4 and 9.5 percent had to be implemented and it was envisaged that the support in question would be phased in over a three-year period, with the obligation to remove it at the end of 2026.
According to Transport, the implementation of this measure means savings for users of more than 33 million euros in 2023, covered by the Ministry; It is estimated that the amount represented by the subsidy will be 30 million in 2024.
Transport adds in its note that the following decision was reached “in line with the Government’s goal of supporting households”: Tolls are not currently increased on highways managed by the State Land Transport Infrastructure Corporation (SEITT) reduced the amounts transferred to the State by an average of 30 percent due to financial problems that have not been brought to the agenda since 2019.