Why do highways charge tolls?

The reason why highways charge fees is naturally not for the self-interest of minority groups, but for the benefit of the country and the people. The money collected is mainly used in two aspects, one is to borrow money to build roads and repay loans, and the other is to build roads, with taxes instead of fees. Specifically, the former makes the highway construction no longer have to rely solely on financial allocations, and the development of highways has also advanced by leaps and bounds. Since the implementation of relevant policies, by the end of 20 12, 74,000 kilometers of first-class highways have been built, increasing by 175 times, and 330,000 kilometers of second-class highways have been built, increasing by 15 times. In China's existing highway network, more than 90% of expressways are built due to the toll road policy.

As for the second aspect, that is, substituting taxes for fees, it refers to using the collected highway fees to pay the funds needed for highway maintenance, construction and management. It can be said that the wool is on the sheep, and some provinces and cities have also formulated the repayment policy for ordinary trunk roads by analogy, and implemented the unified loan and repayment for expressways and trunk roads, effectively ensuring the capital supply for national and provincial trunk roads, and convenient traffic conditions have stimulated the vitality of all walks of life, and vice versa.

It is worth mentioning that the toll mode of China's expressways will comprehensively consider the total investment, technical level, traffic volume, local prices and other factors. The specific situation will be discussed in detail, and local differences will never be ignored in order to take shortcuts. Therefore, the highway toll standards formulated by the provincial transportation authorities are different. Generally speaking, they can be divided into four categories, namely, charging by road mileage. In the first charging mode, the vehicle toll has nothing to do with the number and scale of bridges and tunnels passing by, but only depends on the route and road section. The representative provinces are mainly Beijing, Guangdong and Hubei, and the charging standards in these areas are slightly different.

However, the charge for adding bridges and tunnels alone on basic sections is similar to that for adding bridges and tunnels on basic sections. The similarity between the two is that the vehicle toll is not only related to the road section and mileage, but also related to the number and scale of bridges and tunnels passing by. The difference is that the former charges according to the basic rate on ordinary road sections, and collects bridge and tunnel tolls for vehicles passing through bridges and tunnels that meet the charging conditions respectively. The representative provinces are mainly Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province and Shanxi Province, and the latter is charged at the basic rate on ordinary road sections. For vehicles passing through bridges and tunnels that meet the charging conditions, the representative provinces are mainly Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Shaanxi Province and Anhui Province. As for the toll of independent bridges and tunnels, it means that large independent bridges and tunnels with a length exceeding 1 1,000 meters are charged separately. Representative projects mainly include Wuhan Zhuankou Yangtze River Bridge and Bao Yun Yellow River Bridge.

Generally speaking, the highway toll collection system is only to accelerate the further improvement of the national traffic line, and ultimately benefit the Lebanese people. Moreover, the state also allows different regions to adopt different charging systems, and will never let this fee become the burden of the people. The state provides ideas, policies and regulations, and the people actively respond and benefit from them. This is China's unique wisdom, and China's wisdom does not stop there. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation can be achieved in a short time.