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Abertis Will manage the greater toll of Europe, in one of the main accesses to London

11/10/2013

11 October 2013

Motorway.

Abertis, through his subsidiary in France, Sanef, has awarded the agreement for the design, installation, implementation and operation of the new system of free toll that will install in the motorway that crosses the Támesis in the city of Dartford, in the outskirts of London (United Kingdom).

The Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing, is one of the main accesses to the British capital, since it allows the link between the M25, the road of circunvalación of the city, with the main access to London by the east.

The infrastructure is designed to assume 135.000 daily vehicles, but in days of greater congestion the traffic arrives to surpass the 160.000 vehicles. The new technology will allow that the users can circulate without having to detain to effect the payment, thanks to the installation of an in passing free portico with cameras and other systems of detection of vehicles.

This new technology will comport important advantages of mobility with the reduction of the congestion of traffic and an improvement of the circulation. Likewise, it will contribute important environingingmental advantages with the reduction of the broadcasts of CO₂.

The agreement signed with the Highways Agency, the British authority of motorways, has a length of seven years, that will be able to extend three years more. It is foreseen that the system can be in operation in a year, from October of 2014. This agreement adds to the of the management of the toll in a bridge under construction in the city of Liverpool (United Kingdom), awarded in the last weeks. The French subsidiary of Abertis, Sanef, will manage the toll of free flow of the Mersey Gateway Bridge, a bridge of 1 kilometre of length and three lanes by sense, called to be an important road of communication between the northwest of England and the rest of the country. It estimates that it go in in operation in the spring of 2017. Abertis, through his subsidiary of technological solutions of tolls, designs and manages the payment in important infrastructures, between which stands out the access to the city of Dublin or the bridge Port Mann Bridge, in Vancouver (Canada), the greater bridge of toll of the world.