New tollgates for major highways

Over the coming weeks, 10 new tollgates will be erected on the country's major highways as Government moves in to augment funds for road infrastructure maintenance.

Statutory Instrument 39, Toll Roads (Road Network) Regulations (2009), is scheduled to be amended and gazetted this week to facilitate construction of these structures.

The tollgates will be erected on the Harare-Beitbridge, Harare-Chirundu (Karoi), Harare-Bindura-Mt Darwin, Chivhu–Nyazura (Magamba), Mutare–Masvingo (Dewure) and Masvingo-Beitbridge (Mwenezi Growth Point) roads.

Other highways are Bulawayo-Beitbridge (Collen Bawn), Mutare-Masvingo (Lothian), Ngundu-Tanganda (Triangle) and Victoria Falls-Kazungula (Kazungula).

This exercise will bring the number of tollgates on the Harare-Beitbridge road to six while the Harare-Chirundu, Bulawayo-Beitbridge and Mutare-Masvingo roads will now have three each.