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Construction of Chongwe Toll Plaza completed

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The National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) has announced that all construction works and road tolling systems at Chongwe Toll Plaza have been completed and road tolling will commence tomorrow December 4th 2017.

Avic International, which constructed the US$ 1.9 million Chongwe Toll Plaza through the Road Development Agency (RDA) has completed all works and handed over the Toll Plaza to NRFA for operations.

NRFA Public Relations Manager Alphonsius Hamachila has said the Chongwe Toll Plaza has been installed with modern road tolling features which include enhanced security cameras for internal controls, transparency and accountability, vehicle recognition devices, and customer unit fare displays.

He said the Toll Plaza which will be handling over 2,000 vehicles per day has four service lanes with two servicing Westbound traffic, while the other two will be servicing the East bound traffic.

Mr. Hamachila has urged motorists using the Great East Road to cooperate with the Tolling staff at the Toll Plaza and assured them of the NRFA’s operational Efficiency and Service Excellence as the Agency collects Tolls revenue for sustainable road maintenance.

He said that the NRFA has rolled out the application process for Local User Discounts and called on all motorists who reside within a ten Kilometre radius of the Toll Plaza to visit the Toll Station so that they could access the toll relief facility and enjoy rebates of up to 75 percent or K2 per passage for smaller vehicles and K15 for bigger vehicles.

Mr. Hamachila indicated that frequent road users such as those motorists who reside in Chongwe and work in Lusaka will enjoy Frequent User Discounts.

“To be eligible for the Frequent User Discount, a vehicle, in whose vehicular characteristics fall into an eligible category, shall have to pass through a particular toll station at least ten (10) consecutive times within a thirty (30) day period. Thereafter, the driver of the eligible vehicle shall qualify to be able to pay at Frequent User Discount rate for a closed period of another thirty (30) days,” he said.

He said that the whole process of the Frequent User Discounts shall be administered automatically through the tolling system. The software shall identify each vehicle and mark a unique code based on its registration and the system shall count the number of passages of the vehicle at the Toll Station within a thirty (30) day period. Once a subject vehicle has met the prequalification criteria of minimum ten (10) passages, the system shall then effect reduced tariffs of K5 per passage for smaller vehicles and K10 for bigger vehicles for another period of thirty (30) days.

The Chongwe Toll Plaza has become the ninth inland Toll Plaza to be opened since the beginning of the National Road Tolling Porgramme which covers all vehicle classifications.
Recently the NRFA commenced Road Tolling at simplified Toll Plazas at Chembe in Luapula Province, Kalense and Kateshi in Northern Province to add to the existing Toll Plazas at Katuba, Shimabala, Mumbwa, Manyumbi and Kafulafuta.

It is envisioned that a total of 40 Toll Plazas will be in operation across the country by the end of 2018.

24 COMMENTS

    • You cant have toll gates everywhere. Citizens must be given the option of no tollgates. After all they pay tax for government to construct roads and to maintain them. Toll gates are just double tax. The PF government is just looking for shortcuts or legalised corruption for raising funds.

  1. even a toll plaza should be constructed by the chinese seriously and you say we are independent. 1.9million US dollars going back to China. Stop this in the interest of Zambia our country.

    • No value addition…once these chine firms pull out they take their tech with nothing for the locals to gain…flawed mindsets!!

    • 1.9 million dollars just to erect a gate and a couple of booths on a road! Too much nonsense in this place of yours. I wanted to stay but I can’t stand this. I might just kick someone’s backside one of these days.

  2. This is what PF and lungu only know…..taxing and borrowing.

    To the PF kaponya rats on LT this is development when they don’t even know where the money is going as long as their leaders are seen getting fatter and richer…

  3. That ka Toll gate costing $1.9Millioms?But this country can’t go anywhere.We need pipo who are honest.Anyway bwafya Africans.

  4. For the Kapiri Kabwe toll gate,despite it being funded the Local Contractor was struggling to complete, later it was discovered the Local Contractor used the money for other personal programmes and that how the contract was terminated

  5. It is a pity for Tax drivers like from luansya kitwe and ndola when they pass at chichele tall gets they will be paying K40 go come 5 trips K200 . what a country . any way it is only that the poor don’t know that they are the ones who pay more tax ,

  6. Nice development and more revenue for 21st century highways.
    But wait a minute little does the ordinary zambian and smelly mouthed carder know that the same money will only make edward Jonathan accumulate more miles and double his entourage, he even plans to attend ministrial appointment ceremonies in Zim,Angola and kenya.
    Nxa

  7. 40 Toll gates by the end of 2018? What madness! In a country with so few highways and outlets. Which means motorists will be taxed left, right and centre. Nearly for every medium or long distance trip they make. This is clearly taking advantage of the motorists to raise revenue because they have run out of ideas in more legitimate ways of doing the same, or have no robust mechanisms to collect from the traditional sources. Even the UK, with more numerous motorways and other major roads, only has 23 toll gates. Which means there is a lot of travel one can do without encountering a gate. These monies are meant for road maintenance – do we have breakdowns of what is happening with the collections?

  8. 40 toll gates by 2018 that is $ 76 million. Even if you apply all the tolls to repayment of the building how manybyears to pay for each gate.
    We are broke yet we can find $76 million building these ATMs for the government.
    Again our freindly contractor AVIC is the beneficiary.
    Zambia we have become the real Africa

  9. We are worse off as a country because we have senile leaders in government who are unable to see that these elephants called Toll-gates are damaging the current and future generations via daylight robbery since the money is not going to the intended purposes of roads maintenance. In South Africa, Toll-gates are being closed down because they are a double taxation animal against the users who already pay taxes for the same roads with Toll-gates.

  10. Toll gate is nice and bringing us development to our nation thanks the government and please make more roads as well to avoid accidents i mean more tripplates roads and when we have nice roads accidents free. And please remove the police from the roads and councils is too much there busy making money for nothing.

  11. I live in chingola and everyday go for work in chambishi,what this traffic officers always do is they make check point at chambishi turn off or nearby the railway and collecting k50 to each small buses from chingola and chililabombwe and also those trucks which carried th poles for timber k70 everyday now who is doing that?and where is that money goes to?the answer is the government knows because there are the one sending them and when asked them they also say the president knows this.please since you have bring toll gates remove also road taxis and check point,so that all the money people pay to police go direct to the government.and introduce the fine reciepts so that people will pay themself thru toll gates or post office and reduces the fine.

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