Tasco, the "king" of BOT projects, reported revenue of just over VND 166,4 billion in the third quarter, a decrease of 57,1% compared to the same period in 2017, the lowest in the past five years.
The North Binh Dinh BOT toll station (Hoai Nhon district, Binh Dinh province) has officially stopped collecting tolls as directed by the Vietnam Road Administration.
According to the Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Expressway Investment and Development Corporation (VEC), the loss of toll cards on the Noi Bai - Lao Cai expressway mainly occurred between January and August 2015, with the aim of defrauding toll fees.
Tổng Công ty Đầu tư phát triển đường cao tốc Việt Nam cho biết, đơn vị này gửi văn bản lên Bộ GTVT thông báo về việc hoàn thành sửa chữa đường cao tốc và đề nghị được thu phí trở lại.
The Vietnam Road Administration has just proposed to the Ministry of Transport to change the name of "road usage fee collection stations" back to "toll stations," as they were previously.
At the regular government meeting in May, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stated that the term "toll collection station" should not be used and requested the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport to rename them to something more appropriate.
Sáng 31/5, Grab Việt Nam thông báo trên website của hãng sẽ thu phí 10.000 đồng nếu khách hàng hủy chuyến quá quy định, tuy nhiên, sau đó vài giờ, Grab Việt Nam đã phủ nhận tất cả.
A National Assembly representative from Ca Mau province argued that the phrase "toll collection station" does not ensure the clarity of the Vietnamese language, and that the Ministry of Transport's use of the term is making the story sound ridiculous.
Changing from "toll collection" to "price collection" is a conceptual shift because, ultimately, both price collection and toll collection are essentially collecting money from people when they use BOT roads.
The change in terminology from "toll station" to "price collection station" has drawn much criticism because the term "price collection" is completely meaningless in Vietnamese.
Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Hong Con, Director of the Center for Vietnamese Language and Culture, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi, shared the reasons why the public is outraged by the simultaneous renaming of BOT toll stations to "price collection stations," from "toll collection" to "price collection."
The term "toll collection" has led many to believe it's a farce or a mockery from the investors, the Ministry of Transport, and the public, raising questions about whether such deceptive justification can change the inherent inadequacies of BOT toll stations.
Despite the District People's Committee's directive to stop collecting tolls from January 2018, the unauthorized toll station at Noi Coi Bridge (Van Hoang commune, Phu Xuyen district, Hanoi) continues to collect tolls.
Bộ GTVT và UBND tỉnh Tiền Giang cho biết, cảnh sát giao thông đã ghi hình cũng như thống kê được danh sách 14 xe chuyên chạy đi chạy lại qua trạm BOT Cai Lậy để gây rối.
Cao tốc Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ mới chỉ được sửa chữa, rải thảm mặt đường cũ - tương đương 30% tổng đầu tư của DA, nhưng Bộ GTVT và Tài Chính đã cho nhà đầu tư thu phí tương đương đường cao tốc xây dựng mới “(1.500 đồng/km) là bất hợp lý và bất thường”.
Để hạn chế dự án BOT giao thông sai phạm, chuyên gia kinh tế Nguyễn Minh Phong nhận định: "Phảu xử lý tình trạng "tay không bắt giặc”, sau đó lấy cớ chi phí lớn cộng với tiền vay nhiều rồi đòi phí cao, thu phí trong thời gian dài...".
Thời gian gần đây, trên một số trục đường chính ở các tỉnh khu vực ĐBSCL xuất hiện nhiều trạm thu phí giao thông theo hình thức đầu tư BOT, do khoảng cách giữa các trạm quá gần nhau, vị trí đặt trạm không hợp lý và phí cao ngất ngưởng đã khiến tài xế, chủ xe và người dân bất bình.
Tại xã Vân Mộng, huyện Lộc Bình, tỉnh Lạng Sơn, muốn qua cầu, các hộ dân phải đóng phí theo năm hoặc theo lượt nếu là khách vãng lai, thậm chí đi bộ cũng phải trả tiền.
Many owners of cars with fewer than 12 seats are still charged tolls by the investor when passing through the K13+250 toll station on Road 39B (Thanh Ne – Kien Xuong – Thai Binh), even though these vehicles are 100% exempt from tolls according to Decision 3897/QD-UBND of the People's Committee of Thai Binh province.
In the past, in Phu Cat district (Binh Dinh province), there was a forest called the Forbidden Forest, where the Cham people lived. This was also the resting place of a concubine of King Quang Trung, who was fortunate enough to escape the revenge when the Tay Son dynasty fell.
Currently, after the expansion of National Highway 1A, there is still over 14.000 billion VND remaining. Therefore, consideration should be given to a plan to recoup the investment early for the investor and remove the toll station on the Phap Van - Cau Gie route.
Faced with the reality that people have to pay fees even though they don't use the services, Dr. and journalist Tran Dang Tuan likened it to people "paying for a cake even though they don't eat it."
The Vietnam Registering and Inspection Department has just transferred the technology for affixing tags and creating accounts for non-stop toll payment toll collection to inspection centers in order to meet the deadline for deploying the toll collection system.
The National Traffic Safety Committee has just issued a directive requiring toll stations on expressways to stop collecting tolls when traffic congestion extends for more than 1 km, and to open the gates to allow vehicles to pass through.