The Road Fund (FE) is working to install more tolls on Mozambican roads, in a plan integrated in the Self-Supported Road Maintenance Program (PROASME), according to the morning paper "Notícias".

The FE continues to make efforts to get funding for road rehabilitation and to identify new sections of road where tolling can take place.

The newspaper advances that, for this year, the FE will be able to invest the value of the toll fees in the routine maintenance of two thousand kilometers of asphalt roads and repair another 649 kilometers.

Citing the report of the activities of PROASME last year, the tolls integrated into PROASME absorbed more than 690 million meticais, which have already been spent on maintenance and repair of the roads.

The fixing of toll fees on national and regional roads was made considering that these are only intended to ensure the financing of periodic and routine maintenance, said the Executive Administrator of the FE, on Tuesday in Maputo, during the presentation of the latest report of PROASME.

The President of the Board of Directors of the Road Fund, Ângelo Macuácua, said that the posta of the sector and in the transparent management of revenues from the collection of toll fees in order to sensitize users to accept the user-pays principle.

The Roads sector has lost more than 100 million meticais from fuel revenues, creating a deficit in road rehabilitation.

PROASME, approved by the Government in December 2020, aims to ensure the preservation of the investment made in the road network, through the involvement of users in sharing the financing of maintenance expenses. The program started its implementation in January 2021.

The initiative covers about 3,800 kilometers of coated roads and is being implemented in two phases, covering, in the first phase, roads in good condition with a reasonable volume of traffic.

In the second phase of implementation the program will cover roads in reasonable to poor condition that need initial repairs to make them roadworthy.