Transport Ministry signs amendment on toll system contract

Representatives from the Transport Ministry and the Austrian company Kapsch have signed an amendment to an existing contract, along which Kapsch will build toll systems on planned Czech motorways, whose construction is to begin at the latest by 2017. The news was revealed by a ministry spokesman on Thursday. Currently, tolls are collected on nearly 1,000 kilometres of motorway in the Czech Republic, affecting transport trucks weighing 12 tonnes or more.