Observers felt the move had come too late in the day for a government that had been in power for a decade and pointed out that it could be an attempt to neutralize the anti-toll politics of the Shiv Sena and MNS that had dented the government's image ahead of the Lok Sabha polls earlier this year.
People are not happy with toll recovery against road development and maintenance and so there was a need to devise an alternative development strategy. Toll-free
projects would be the need of the future, he said, referring to the violent agitation against toll recovery across the state recently.
"We need to rethink the policy entirely. It has to be seen whether to build toll-backed roads or not. Instead of toll, is there any alternative such as electronic pass or other way of participation?" he said.
He refused to impose betterment tax on a locality against development or roads and other infrastructure.
"Now the question is how do we change or replace toll?" he said. First, there should be digitization of vehicle count on any road to get a correct estimate of vehicle use before initiating any project, said the CM, questioning the present manual system of vehicle estimation to decide the scope of road development and toll recovery charges and period.
In Mumbai, toll is recovered at five points on the fringes. People complain toll is being recovered despite collection of VAT against road development on fuel.
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