The toll charges of three per cent would be affected for vehicles using the Outer Ring Road (ORR) that runs the vehicles into the city beyond suburbs, from April 1.The review on the charges would mean a minor rise in the toll charges for using the roads between Pedda Amberpet and Shamirpet via Shamshabad, Narsingi, Patancheru, Dundigal and Medchal. According to ORR officials, an estimated 32,000 vehicles use every day the 119.45 km presently available of the total planned ORR length of 158 km.
The per-kilometre averages for vehicles would not be affected so much and in some instances, might not be impacted at all. For example if we take, per km average burden for cars and vans would not be more than 0.04 paise and the same for 7-or-more axled vehicles would be around a rupee. This may not be a big burden to the people but can affect the Lorries and heavy load vehicles.
The officials said that the three per cent revision would not be felt uniformly for all distances and for all class of vehicles as rounding the toll charge to nearest Rs.10 was practised here. “For some distances between one point to another point, there might not be a rise in fee at all while for some other distances, it could be marginal,” the official said.
