Payment said to be easy to avoid on Hungarian motorways

According to Népszabadság, the chances of getting caught are minimal if someone decides against paying the highway fees. The control system of state motorway manager ÁAK has flaws which would cost billions of forints to fix.

Open-eyed car owners could halve their highway fees by purchasing motorbike stickers for half the price, as the control system only pays attention to whether the vehicle passing the cameras has any stickers on it.

ÁAK spokesman András Winkler-Virág denied the existence of flaws in the system. According to him, cheaters can be filtered out by the periodic additional controls they perform, and, since surcharges are very high, people buy valid stickers rather than risk being caught and having to pay the expensive fine. There is a control system, he added, which could solve the problem revealed by Népszabadság, but it is too expensive to continuously implement.

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