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Villager collects fees for using his toll-evading shortcut
By Pan Zheng |
July 5, 2011, Tuesday
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A villager in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China built a toll-evading shortcut near a highway toll station and collected small fees with a basket, letting drivers themselves to decide how much to pay, Beijing News reported today.
Qin Fugui, a villager in Liujiang County, is manning the 5-meter-wide, 20-meter-long shortcut with his cousin. Motorists need to pay a token fee to use the shortcut to bypass the official toll station and save money.
Qin put a bamboo basket on the backseat of a bicycle he parked on the roadside and blocked the shortcut with a handcart. Anyone who wants to use the shortcut should toss money into the basket.
Qin told the newspaper that he did this to remind the local government to compensate his family for occupying their land to build the toll station. The two sides have not reached an agreement on compensation.
"I have my own job and I don't want to earn money this way," Qin said. "I only hope the government can solve our problem."
The newspaper said Qin did not set prices for shortcut users most of them just threw 0.5 yuan or 1 yuan into his basket.
The Liuyong Toll Station chief Huang Jiafeng said Qin was demanding a very high compensation and the local authorities could not satisfy him for fear that other villagers might follow his suit.
On June 30, Liujiang County government said they had put it on their agenda to solve the land dispute with Qin's family.
Qin Fugui, a villager in Liujiang County, is manning the 5-meter-wide, 20-meter-long shortcut with his cousin. Motorists need to pay a token fee to use the shortcut to bypass the official toll station and save money.
Qin put a bamboo basket on the backseat of a bicycle he parked on the roadside and blocked the shortcut with a handcart. Anyone who wants to use the shortcut should toss money into the basket.
Qin told the newspaper that he did this to remind the local government to compensate his family for occupying their land to build the toll station. The two sides have not reached an agreement on compensation.
"I have my own job and I don't want to earn money this way," Qin said. "I only hope the government can solve our problem."
The newspaper said Qin did not set prices for shortcut users most of them just threw 0.5 yuan or 1 yuan into his basket.
The Liuyong Toll Station chief Huang Jiafeng said Qin was demanding a very high compensation and the local authorities could not satisfy him for fear that other villagers might follow his suit.
On June 30, Liujiang County government said they had put it on their agenda to solve the land dispute with Qin's family.
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