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GOVERNMENT has approved the construction of 10 more tollgates in major highways as it moves to mobilise funds for roads maintenance and upgrading.
This development is highlighted in a Government Gazette that was published on Friday.
“It is hereby notified that the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development, in terms of section 6 of the Toll Roads has made the following regulations: The Second Schedule to the principal regulations is amended by the addition of the following routes…”
Statutory Instrument 114 of 2015 Toll Roads (National Road Network) provides for new tollgates on the Harare-Masvingo (Honeyspruit), Harare-Chirundu (Karoi), Victoria Falls-Kazungula (Kazungula), Bulawayo-Beitbridge (Colleen Bawn), Mutare-Masvingo (Lothiam) and Ngundu-Tanganda (Triangle) roads.
Other highways are Harare-Bindura-Mt Darwin (Mufurudzi), Chivhu-Nyazura (Magamba), Mutare-Masvingo (Dewure) and Masvingo-Beitbridge (Mwenezi).
This will bring to six the number of tollgates on the Harare-Beitbridge highway while the Harare-Chirundu, Bulawayo-Beitbridge and Mutare-Masvingo roads will now have three each.
Light vehicles, mini-buses, long chasis buses and haulage trucks currently pay US$2, US$3, US$4 and US$10 respectively when passing each tollgate.
Under the Statutory Instrument, those with light motor vehicles and live within a 10 km radius from a toll gate will pay US$10 in monthly toll fees.
Online Reporter