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In just one month, Moscow administrative traffic inspectors have issued more than 140,000 fines to car owners who have not paid for travel along Bagration Avenue. The capital's mayor's office was one of the first to take advantage of the new law, which allows regions to establish and apply their own sanctions against such violators. At the same time, Kommersant found out that almost a third of the decisions were immediately cancelled, since the drivers paid off their debts within 20 days. In response, experts note that citizens are still not sufficiently informed about the features of the barrier-free movement system "Free Flow" and urge consideration of new ways of informing drivers about this.
From September 1 to October 6, 140 thousand decisions were made under Art. The Moscow Administrative Road Inspection (MADI) told Kommersant that 10.13 of the Moscow Code of Administrative Offenses was made for failure to pay the fare on Bagration Avenue. The fare is 416 rubles. Up to 12,000 rubles. (Depending on the presence or absence of a transponder and the class of the car) The fine for the violation is 3-15 thousand rubles. However, almost a third of the decisions were immediately cancelled, since the debt for the trip was paid within 20 days (see chart). This opportunity is available to violators by law.
On Bagration Avenue, the "Free Flow" system operates without barriers or toll booths. Users must pay for the ride themselves, otherwise the amount will be automatically debited from their account.
Let me remind you that until recently, violators on all toll highways faced a single fine from Rostransnadzor in the amount of 1.5 thousand rubles. for a passenger car and 5,000 rubles. for trucks and buses. The fee was received by the federal budget. Due to the emergence of a large number of regional "payers", the authorities decided to distribute fines between budgets, dividing them into federal and regional. The law transferring the relevant powers to the subject came into force on September 1. After amendments were made to the Administrative Code of Moscow, the capital became the only region that took advantage of the right to establish its own sanctions and manage their implementation. In the Moscow Region, they have just announced such a plan, a project providing for a fine of the same 3,000 rubles. Local provisions on administrative offenses have been prepared. In St. Petersburg, they plan to introduce a fine of 30,000 rubles. For the "Krolik" of the Western High-Speed Diameter.
The capital also has the Moscow High-Speed Diameter (MSD), which is paid only by public transport owners (950 rubles) (this does not apply to cars with Moscow and regional license plates). "Currently, the consideration of violations related to non-payment of travel expenses by the MSD is being carried out in test mode," MADI reported in response to a Kommersant request. This means that no fines have been issued yet. The prosecutors do not give a reason. According to the prosecutor's office, 400 thousand motorists use the MSD every day, the "overwhelming" majority of whom are Muscovites.
Kommersant reported that last year Rostransnadzor issued more than 1 million fines for non-payment of tolls (see publication dated December 4, 2023). Most of the orders were issued to users of the Central Ring Road and M-12 East. Experts noted that due to poor public awareness of the Free Flow system, most of the fined drivers most likely did not realize that they were driving on a toll road. Monitoring conducted by Kommersant showed that the problem remains relevant almost a year later. Social networks contain many stories about city residents who followed the navigator along the route through Bagration Avenue, but did not even suspect that they were on a toll road (Yandex and 2GIS showed a warning) and were fined for non-compliance with traffic rules. payment.
MADI points to another common problem for users.
In essence, the Northern Bypass and Bagration Avenue in Odintsovo are separate roads with different toll collection systems, but one flows smoothly into the other. However, many drivers pay only once.
The inspector reminded that you can check your debt when driving along Bagration Avenue through the applications "Parking of Russia", "Main Road" or through the website m-road.ru. "Many are already familiar with how to pay for travel, but for the most inattentive, it is the MADI resolution that becomes the main means of stimulating users to familiarize themselves with the rules for collecting fees," says the "New Quality of Roads" company. (the operator of the northern bypass of Odintsovo and Bagration Avenue).
It is necessary to create a modern system of informing drivers, says Petr Shukumatov, head of the working group of the People's Front "Protection of Motorists' Rights". "You can't expect people to go somewhere and personally check the debt," the expert said. "You will need to send notifications via SMS, push messages, State Services, or all at once through all available channels. We have modern IT systems for this, and the phone numbers of most drivers are in the traffic police database. At the same time, most toll roads in Russia will be barrier-free." Mr. Shkumatov also called on navigation software manufacturers to improve interfaces so that warnings about toll roads are more readable and large.
We would like to inform you that by the end of 2024, sections of Mytishchi Highway (connecting Dmitrovskoye and Yaroslavskoye Highways) and Yuzhnolytkarinskoye Highway (south-eastern alternate of the Moscow Ring Road) are planned to be opened in the Moscow Region. Rosavtodor and Avtodor, in turn, are completing the section of the M-12 Vostok highway from Kazan to Yekaterinburg, which is also planned to be opened in toll mode by the end of the year.