Due to the corona pandemic, fewer trucks are on the roads in Germany. This is also noticeable in the income from the truck toll. But the Ministry of Transport already sees light at the end of the tunnel.
As a result of the Corona crisis, the federal government will have to forego millions of truck toll revenues. In May, around EUR 95 million less toll fees were collected than in the same month last year. The Federal Ministry of Transport already recorded significantly lower revenues in April: around EUR 88 million less than in the previous year. This emerges from the Federal Government's response to a small request from the Greens, which is submitted to the "Rheinische Post". The Ministry of Transport expects a recovery in June compared to the previous months.
The toll revenues flow largely into the financing of road construction. The budget spokesman for the Green Group, Sven-Christian Kindler, therefore asked Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer to put road construction projects, which are already digging billions, on file. "The road construction budget is oversized anyway and blocks the turn of traffic and climate protection," said Kindler. In the future, the money from the truck toll would also have to flow into the financing of local transport, rail and bicycle traffic, the Greens transport politician demanded.
At the beginning of June, the Ministry of Transport issued a position paper on the economic stimulus package amounting to 130 billion that a gap of between 500 and 600 million euros could be expected in toll revenues in 2020 as a result of the pandemic.
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