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Date Published: 22/10/2021

ARCHIVED - Transport sector in Spain threatens strikes over tolls

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Spain intends to implement a pay system on highways by 2024

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Transport sector in Spain threatens strikes over tolls

Several months have passed since the Spanish government announced its intention to implement tolls on high-capacity highway roads but the issue continues to generate criticism, with the transport sector weighing in this week and threatening strikes.

On Tuesday, the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, confirmed that the details would be ironed out “in a few months”, but workers have complained that officials have repeatedly refused to discuss the matter. If a common consensus isn’t reached, Víctor González, president of the Spanish Federation of Discretionary Transport of Goods (Fetransa) has insisted, a national transport strike could be on the cards.

The topic has come up for discussion at a sensitive time given the rise in the price of diesel, with truckers predicting that a pay-as-you-go system on Spanish roads will lead to job losses. Similarly, the Spanish Confederation of Bus Transport (Confebus) has warned that tolls will most likely increase the cost of bus tickets, negating the government’s insistence that the measure will encourage more people to use public transport.

Whatever the outcome, it seems certain that some kind of payment system will be implemented on highways by 2024 given the fact that Pedro Sánchez has already promised as much to Brussels in order to receive its economic recovery fund.

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