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TAC endorses toll levels for the Lantau Link

The Transport Advisory Committee (TAC), at a meeting today (Tuesday), endorsed the toll levels for the Lantau Link and the additional charge to be levied on taxi passengers for using the Lantau Link.

Differential tolls will be charged on different types of vehicles. The toll schedule is as follows:

Vehicle Type

Private car, taxi

Motorcycle, motor tricyle

Light bus

Single-decked bus

Double-decked bus

Light goods vehicle and special purpose vehicle not >5.5t

Medium goods vehicle and special purchase vehicle>5.5t but not >24t

Heavy goods vehicle and special purchase vehicle >24t Articulated vehicle

Vehicle towing another vehicle

Vehilce (other than articulated vehicle) towing a trailer

Note 1: The two vehicles shall be charged the tolls prescribed for their

Toll ($)

30

15

40

40

55

40

45

75

80

Note 1

Note 2

respective

categories. (For example, if a private car is towed by a towing vehicle which belongs to the category "light goods vehicle & special purpose vehicle not >5.5t", the appropriate toll is $70 ($30 + $40).)

Note 2: The towing vehicle shall be charged the toll prescribed for its category and the

trailer shall be charged $30.

In endorsing the toll levels, members noted the factors affecting the relativity between different classes of vehicles, the target rate of return on Average Net Fixed Assets and an analysis of public acceptability of the tolls. They noted, among other things, that

(a)

the tolls for private cars and taxis, motorcycles, private and public light buses, single-decked buses and double-decked buses are the same as those for the Western Harbour Crossing;