The contract also includes the management and maintenance of the road and its equipment over 20 years, including the management of the toll payment systems, for which Sanef will receive a fee of US$12.5 million a year.
The Boulevard Périphérique Nord de Lyon is a 10 kilometre-long urban road which is essential to the city's mobility and dynamism. It receives 45,000 vehicles a day on the pay section and of 85,000 vehicles along its two free sections. It has six kilometres of tunnels which must be upgraded to comply with the new safety regulations introduced after the Mont Blanc tunnel accident.
