Fetesti-Cernavoda Bridge Toll Brings RON400,000 Daily – Romanian Transp Min

“The toll brings RON300,000-RON400,000 daily, which in one year would cover half of the expenses for removing snow. If we don’t use this money for that, than we take funds from the state budget and we no longer build ten kilometers of highway,” Berceanu said.

He said weekends don’t bring the highest amounts of money, as trucks that pay a higher toll cross the bridge especially on working days.

Berceanu criticized former transport minister Ludovic Orban for not introducing the toll earlier, claiming that the National Roads and Highways Company lost important amounts.

“The order reintroducing the toll was issued by Mr. Orban in April last year. Then the local elections came and he didn’t apply it, which brought loss to the National Highways Company. If he is the one to establish all sorts of committees inquiring the spending of public money, maybe he could set up his own to see how much money was lost, because he was the one who had to enforce the toll. First there were the local elections, than the parliamentary elections and thus he never introduce it,” Berceanu said.

He said those who complain about the toll are not the tourists, but the truck drivers.

Drivers must pay as of August 3 a toll to cross the Fetesti-Cernavoda Bridge. The toll, set depending on the type of vehicle, amounts to RON10 for cars.

Drivers will pay RON7 for motorcycles, RON10 for cars and RON35 for minibuses and vehicles with a maximum weight below 12 tons.

The tax was set at RON47 for buses or vehicles with a maximum weight larger or equaling 12 tons and with minimum three axes.

Drivers have to pay RON68 for trucks with maximum total authorized weight larger or equaling 12 tons and with minimum four axes, according to the road company.

The amounts were set by order of former transport minister Ludovic Orban in February 2008 and are applied to vehicles registered in Romania or in other states, for each crossing regardless of the lane.