Sunday, June 12, 2011: Union Minister KV Thomas today said that toll collection in Aroor-Edappally NH cannot be avoided. He was speaking at a meeting in Kochi for discussing the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI’s) decision to collect user fee from motorists using the Aroor-Edapally (16 km) stretch of the NH 47 bypass.He said that the toll is being levied on the basis of national policy and toll collection is being held in other states too.
The agency has entrusted the Cochin Port Road Company to collect Rs 15 for single journey by car, Rs 20 for multiple passages each day and Rs 415 for monthly pass. The NHAI-specified rates for other vehicles will be: light commercial vehicle/mini bus – Rs 25, Rs 35 and Rs 730; bus and lorry – Rs 50, Rs 75 and Rs 1,460 and heavier vehicles Rs 80, Rs 115 and Rs 2,345.
The NHAI’s Kochi project director C.T. Abraham said that the user fee would be collected at the toll booths at Kumbalam. “Users of personal vehicles (cars, other four wheelers) residing within 10 km radius of the booth would get the monthly pass at Rs 150, while it would be Rs 300 for those residing between 10 to 20 km of the booth.”
The protesting organizations said that the NHAI is imposing the toll without building flyovers and foot overbridges/subways at the four extremely-congested junctions en route – Kundanoor, Vytilla, Palarivattom and Edapally. Most often, motorists have to wait for three signal changes or more to cross each of these junctions.
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