{"id":357824,"date":"2020-06-17T10:44:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T05:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357824"},"modified":"2020-06-17T10:44:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T05:14:23","slug":"road-developers-see-toll-revenues-pick-up-as-highway-traffic-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/road-developers-see-toll-revenues-pick-up-as-highway-traffic-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Road developers see toll revenues pick up as highway traffic returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : After nearly a three-month slump, highway road operators are starting to see toll revenues pick up in June. As economic activity resumes gradually, and curbs are lifted on inter-state transport, industry experts estimate that highway traffic and toll revenues have recovered to 70-75% of their pre-covid levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing nearly a 75% return of normal traffic numbers on our assets, depending on the geography,&#8221; the promoter of a leading developer told Mint. \u201cToll revenues depend on the kind of traffic combinations, passenger or commercial traffic. The roads where we see more commercial traffic, revenues have picked up faster. Passenger numbers are still a fraction of what they used to be before the lockdown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While consolidated traffic or toll revenue numbers aren\u2019t publicly available for FY20, both government and private road operators combined had earned roughly \u20b924,400 crore in toll revenues in FY19. Analysts estimate that this had risen to nearly \u20b925,300 crore in FY20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : After nearly a three-month slump, highway road operators are starting to see toll revenues pick up in June. As economic activity resumes gradually, and curbs are lifted on inter-state transport, industry experts estimate that highway traffic and toll revenues have recovered to 70-75% of their pre-covid levels. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing nearly a 75% return of normal traffic numbers on our assets, depending on the geography,&#8221; the promoter of a leading developer told Mint. \u201cToll revenues depend on the kind of traffic combinations, passenger or commercial traffic. The roads where we see more commercial traffic, revenues have picked up faster. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}