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New Law Seeks to Prevent Toll-Free Travel by Vehicles Over 3.5 Tons on Service Roads

1435996482479243395The Parliament plenum on Thursday passed an amendment submitted by Infrastructure, Greek Transport and Networks Minister Christos Spirtzis that will ban heavy vehicles of over 3.5 tons from using toll-free service roads running parallel to highways, instead of Greece’s national highway system.
“We, the state, cannot continue to pay millions for the upkeep of the service road network used by foreign trucks,” Spirtzis said in support of the amendment, which was attached to draft bill ratifying the agreement between the European Union and Iraq. He said that exceptions will be made for companies based near a service road and, under this regime, drivers of heavy vehicles with foreign licence plates will be provided with a special sign, after paying the relevant fee when they entered the country. Based on the amendment, the exceptions to the ban will be decided by the transport minister.
Other exceptions will include the KTEL inter-city buses, agricultural vehicles and heavy vehicles owned by local residents. The same amendment legislates for an independent road fees service to electronically manage road infrastructure.
The amendment was passed with the support of ruling SYRIZA and ANEL coalition MPs, while main opposition New Democracy, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Union of Centrists voted against and the Potami party and far-right Golden Dawn voted “present.”
(source: ana-mpa)

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