Thousands of vans and trucks drive around village toll roads
Such a trick performed in Orsha-Brest highway costs the state budget over 1 million dollars a year.
Owners of summer houses situated near Stoubtsy, not far from "Kolasava" toll booth, have informed Euroradio about the situation. The vans and trucks keep spoiling roads and contaminating the air.
Hopeless owners of summer houses are ready to do anything possible
The infringers get photographed. But people do not know what to do with the photos...
Owners of summer houses are struggling as much as they can - they have already complained to various organizations. But nothing has helped so far.
An interdictory sign is installed in the highway - owners of summer houses have achieved it after a complaint sent to the State Control Committee.
One more sign is installed in the road itself.
Vans keep driving around the toll booths day and night.
"Kolasava" toll plaza. Photo by: http://autotraveler.ru
Toll booths belong to the enterprise "Belautastrada". The collected money is added directly to the state budget...
How much is the state losing due to cunning drivers?
You can count if you find out what the regular fee is.
Each van driver has to pay 15 euro - this is a good profit! And a huge loss too!
According to owners of summer houses, about 50 vans drive around the toll booths near their houses every day, or about 2 vans per hour. It keeps happening every day, all the year round. If you multiply the number of 4 toll booths you will get over 1 million euro or about 1 million 370 thousand dollars! However, it seems that only owners of summer houses care about the problem!