The President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, has again promised that, “in a short space of time”, motorcycles will be exempt from toll charges on the country’s federal highways.
“To the motorcyclists who are here, be sure of one thing. All new contracts, all new highway concessions, motorcycle tolls will be zero, as is already the case on the Presidente Dutra Highway. No motorcyclist, in a short space of time, will pay tolls on any federal highway across Brazil”, said Bolsonaro when participating, late this morning (28), in Maceió (AL), in a ceremony for the delivery of affordable housing to low-income families.
The first time the president spoke publicly about the intention to zero the value of tolls charged to motorcyclists on federal highways was on May 18, 2021. During the launch ceremony of the Incentive Program for Road Cargo Transport – Asphalt Giants , Bolsonaro said that he had already talked to the then Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio de Freitas, and that the government team had “hit the hammer” on the matter. “In all new concessions in Brazil, the motorcyclist will no longer pay tolls,” he said at the time.
A little less than three months later, in August, the Ministry of Infrastructure published the Ordinance 104establishing that, “as a public policy guideline”, the auction notices for 11 federal highways in the bidding phase should provide for the future exemption from charging toll fees for motorcycles.
“The volume of motorcycles that travel on highways is very small compared to other types of vehicles, their financial contribution is small and their exemption would lead to a redistribution of values, but with a negligible impact on the tariff of other categories. This impact is estimated at around 0.04%, but each new concession will have its studies carried out individually”, explained Freitas at the time.
As Bolsonaro said today, the measure has already been applied to the concession contract for the Presidente Dutra highway (BR-116), which connects São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. According to the CCR concessionaire, which started managing the highway in March of this year, the exemption also applies to scooters, tricycles and motorcycles, in addition to ambulances, official vehicles, public service providers or public foundations, as well as cars. Diplomatic Corps officers.
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At the same ceremony in the capital of Alagoas, Bolsonaro listed a series of achievements of his government. In addition to highlighting the completion of stalled works, the president highlighted the creation of Pix. According to him, the electronic money transfer feature that the Central Bank created during the current administration allowed people to save money by not having to pay for various bank transactions, such as payments and transfers.
“I doubt that anyone here doesn’t have the Pix. You pay nothing for this. The big banks will stop collecting, this year, R$ 30 billion. [Justamente] because it doesn’t exist [cobrança de] tariff on the PIX”, added Bolsonaro, flanked by the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL); ministers of state; congressmen such as senator Fernando Collor (PTB-AL), Caixa president Pedro Guimarães and the mayor of Maceió, João Henrique Caldas, who classified the project to build affordable housing in the neighborhood of Vergel do Lago as “a long-awaited project”. ” by the population.
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According to an institutional video shown during the event, the Residencial Parque da Lagoa project foresees the construction of 1,776 apartments that will benefit riverside families who already live and work on the site. The perspective is to benefit about 7 thousand people. The project also foresees the construction of a planned sanitation system; leisure areas, parking lots, squares and community center. The federal government alone invested R$ 142 million in the work.
“This is one of the most beautiful projects in the history of the ministry,” said the Minister of Regional Development, Daniel Ferreira, during the event. “Not only because it solves the problem of a community of around 8,000 shellfish gatherers, but also because it returns a postcard to Maceió, giving dignity, citizenship and security to workers. [contemplados].”
