A shadow toll is a contractual payment made by a government per driver using a road to a private company that operates a road built or maintained using private private finance initiative funding. Payments are based, at least in part, on the number of vehicles using a section of road, often over a 20-30 year period. The shadow tolls or per vehicle fees are paid directly to the company without intervention or direct payment from the users.
On more recent UK schemes shadow toll payments reduce as the number of vehicles increase to encourage availability of the road rather than the number of vehicles carried.
Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or toll:
“It is the same for all men. None of us can escape this shadow of the father, even if that shadow fills us with fear, even if it has no name or face. To be worthy of that man, to prove something to that man, to exorcise the memory of that man from every corner of our life—however it affects us, the shadow of that man cannot be denied.”
—Kent Nerburn (20th century)
“The fact that the mental health establishment has equated separation with health, equated women’s morality with soft-heartedness, and placed mothers on the psychological hot seat has taken a toll on modern mothers.”
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