Tolls to start on new Hornafjardarfljot road section

Tolls will be collected for vehicles using the new section of the national road over Hornafjardarfljot from 1 September, mbl.is reports.

A single trip for a vehicle weighing less than 3.5 tonnes will cost 1,500 Icelandic krona. That is three times the planned 500 krona toll for the new Olfusa River bridge.

The rates will remain unchanged, and the tolls will be collected indefinitely, Sigridur Inga Sigurdardottir, a specialist in the communications department of Iceland’s road administration, told mbl.is.

The monthly maximum for vehicles under 3.5 tonnes will be 18,750 krona, equivalent to 225,000 krona per year.

A trip will cost 2,100 krona for vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes, with a monthly maximum of 26,250 krona. That amounts to 315,000 krona per year. A single trip for vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will cost 4,500 krona.

The tolls are intended to finance the construction project. The road section was opened on 24 June and shortened Iceland’s Ring Road by 12 kilometres, from 1,321 kilometres to 1,309 kilometres.

The project is being carried out by Spolur ehf and Iceland’s road administration under legislation on public private partnerships. Spolur previously carried out the Hvalfjordur tunnel project. The shortening of the Ring Road is the road administration’s first public private partnership project.