GOVERNMENT has justified that the upward adjustment in toll fees for heavy good vehicles is necessary for it to implement a very ambitious programme to rehabilitate all major trunk, district, township and feeder roads. In a statement, Sunday, Minister of Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Charles Milupi stated that the road tolls, fuel levy and other road charges were an important source of funding for road projects and related activities in the road sector. Milupi stated that the toll tariff structure had remained unchanged since 2017 and this had negatively affected investment in the sector, hence government’s decision to propose an upward adjustment. “The government of the Republic of Zambia, through the Road Development Agency (RDA) and the National Road...