There is a specific timetable for canceling the provincial toll station of expressway.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 10 (Reporter Wei Yukun) Recently, an executive meeting was held in the State Council to clarify policy measures, and strive to basically cancel the provincial toll stations of expressways nationwide by the end of this year, so as to facilitate people’s travel and improve logistics efficiency. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport said at the routine briefing on the State Council policy held on the 10th that the Ministry of Transport has set a specific timetable to ensure the realization of this goal and task as scheduled.

Dai Dongchang, vice minister of the Ministry of Transport, said here that the cancellation of provincial toll stations on expressways is a very complicated systematic project, which involves a lot of work. The specific time schedule is to issue various plans and requirements, including technical standards, overall design plans, engineering construction plans and so on, before the end of May. The construction of the project will be completed from June to October, including the renovation of toll lanes, the renovation of toll stations, the upgrading of software and hardware, and so on. In November, the joint debugging test was started, so as to meet the requirements for switching between the old and new systems before the end of December. On this basis, timely organize and implement system switching to ensure the completion of this target task.

Dai Dongchang said that around the goal of basically canceling the provincial toll stations of expressways by the end of this year, work will be focused on four aspects.

First, speed up the construction and improvement of expressway toll collection system. It mainly includes: clearing and settlement at the central and local levels, upgrading the operation management system, standardizing the construction and transformation of hardware and software of toll stations, toll lanes and ETC portal systems, and strengthening the system network security.

The second is to speed up the popularization and application of ETC electronic toll collection system. The cancellation of provincial toll stations is not the cancellation of highway tolls, but the realization of fast toll collection without stopping through technical means. Therefore, the popularization of ETC is very important. To this end, it will speed up the installation of ETC vehicle-mounted devices for existing vehicles free of charge, promote the front-mounted installation of vehicles, expand service functions, encourage the application of ETC in car-related places such as parking lots, and realize the sharing of motor vehicle registration information to facilitate the installation of ETC vehicle-mounted devices for vehicles.

The third is to revise and improve laws and regulations. The abolition of provincial toll stations on expressways is a change in the national expressway operation mode and toll technology route, and it is urgent to revise and improve the highway law and toll road management regulations. In addition, it is also necessary to study and unify the highway traffic management policies for dangerous chemicals transport vehicles and motorcycles.

The fourth is to promote the stock of government toll roads in bond swap. In order to prevent and resolve the debt risk of toll roads, we will cooperate with relevant departments to increase the issuance of special bonds for toll roads, promote local government bonds to replace the existing debts of government toll roads that meet the policy requirements, optimize the debt structure, and prevent and resolve debt risks.