Toll roads make US$18.8 million revenue last year

In 2021, fees from toll road sections exceeded 8 billion tenge. This was reported by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development. In particular, almost 7 billion came from four roads of national significance: Nur-Sultan - Temirtau, Nur-Sultan - Shchuchinsk, Almaty - Kapshagai and Almaty - Khorgos. In addition, since the autumn of last year, seven more paid sections of roads have been launched. Taraz - Kainar, Shymkent - Kyzylorda, Shymkent - Taraz, Shymkent - the border of Uzbekistan, Taldykorgan - Kapshagai, Kokshetau - Shchuchinsk, Nur-Sultan - Pavlodar brought to the treasury over 1 billion tenge. The collected money will be used to maintain and support the road and roadside infrastructure, as well as the software and hardware equipment on these paid areas.

Translation by Aruzhan Bizhigitova

Editing by Galiya Khassenkhanova