Government has announce plans to temporary shelve plans to introduce toll gates within cities.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development, Dr Joram Gumbo could not shed much on the suspension of the urban tollgate programme, he said Government was concentrating on revamping the country's road network.
Reliable sources within the ministry reveled to a weekly publication that the urban toll gates had been temporarily halted.
The suspension of urban tollgates also comes after Government secured a $30 million road equipment loan from Belarus that will help in the rehabilitation and construction of roads in Bulawayo.
Last year, Government indicated that it was going to introduce 30 more tollgates, with some of them in urban areas.
To date, 10 tollgates have been approved with implementation already underway.
Government introduced the road toll system in 2009 and about US$360 million has been collected to date.
- Sunday Mail
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