Officially renamed "toll station" to "toll station"
The General Department of Roads requires units to change the name of "toll stations" to "toll stations" for road service use.
Mr. Nguyen Van Huyen - General Director of the Vietnam Road Administration said that this unit has just sent a document to investors, BOT project enterprises; Vietnam Expressway Corporation; Cuu Long Transport Infrastructure Development and Investment Corporation requesting to officially implement the use of the name "toll station".
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Accordingly, in order to unify the name to be easy to understand, simple, and accepted by people and businesses, the Vietnam Road Administration requests the above units to change the name of "toll collection station" to "toll station". At the same time, replace the word "price" with the word "fee" in the phrases "toll collection station", "price list", "price level" on the system of station name signs, signboards, names of fee list boards and on toll tickets at toll stations. Completion time is before July 20, 2018; For printed tickets, the unit will continue to use them until new tickets are issued.
The General Department of Roads also requested the Road Management Department and the Expressway Management Department to inspect and urge the implementation of units under their management, and report the results to the General Department of Roads of Vietnam before July 25, 2018.
According to Mr. Huyen, previously, the Vietnam Road Administration had sent a document proposing to the Ministry of Transport to change the name of the road service toll station to the road service toll station to unify the name to be suitable, simple, easy to understand, and accepted by people and businesses.
Specifically, road projects will be called toll stations for road use services at Km (route) of national highway (name of national highway); Bridge projects will be called toll stations for road use services at bridge (name of bridge) Km (route) of national highway (name of national highway); Tunnel projects will be called toll stations for road use services at tunnel (name of tunnel) Km (route) of national highway (name of national highway).
According to the Vietnam Road Administration, the name has been used since the road toll collection mechanism was established, in accordance with the provisions of Article 51 of the 2008 Road Traffic Law (Toll stations are places where tolls are collected for road vehicles, built according to planning or investment projects approved by competent state agencies); in accordance with the habits of road users, and accepted by society. The name "toll station" here is understood as the place where road use service fees are collected for road construction investment projects for business purposes, which are governed by the Law on Prices.