RIA Plans to Set Up State Enterprise to Operate the Road Toll System

The establishment of a state enterprise to operate the road toll systems begins, Doncho Atanasov, the Chairperson of the Management Board of the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) said on 14^th of August.

According to him, the road toll system is very important for the self-financing of the maintenance and construction of the national road network in the country. This will be the first system that will be self-financed without relying on the state budget, Atanasov added. The system is expected to start work next year or in 2019 at the latest and to collect revenues of 1 billion BGN for one year.

Last week, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that if the toll system did not start working by 14^th of August, the state had readiness to build it.