Highways will reactivate AutoExpreso fines starting in October

On July 22, 2026, NotiCel reports that the Highways and Transportation Authority will reactivate the fines applicable to the AutoExpreso system starting in October 2026. The measure, according to the agency, is part of the requirements of the Fiscal Plan certified by the Financial Oversight and Management Board and of ACT's budget commitments. The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Public Works and ACT executive director, Edwin González Montalvo, says that in recent years the operating system and the physical infrastructure of the plazas were modernized.

Since 2022, he explains, ACT replaced infrastructure at the PR-20, 52, 53, and 66 plazas and improved security. With those works completed, it is time to reactivate the legal provisions for handling administrative fines. DTOP urges people to register the marbete sticker, check the balance, and keep sufficient funds. The channels it names include the AutoExpreso Móvil app, the website, reload lanes, 1(888) 688-1010, the CESCOs, and a walk-in office at Metro Office Park, Guaynabo. It adds more than 370 collection points at pharmacies, gas stations, and banks, and payments through CESCO Digital.

NotiCel does not publish in this note the amount of each fine or a projected collection for October. On July 1, the same outlet had covered that DTOP collected more than $70 million in a ticket-payment amnesty. That is another window and another date. It is not used to estimate what AutoExpreso will collect. A traffic ticket and an electronic toll are two debts.

Edwin González Montalvo ties the reactivation to the system's sustainability and to uniform compliance. The Board appears as author of the Fiscal Plan, not as a spokesperson in this piece. Jenniffer González Colón does not speak. The reader who wants ACT's statement has the URL at the foot.

It is also not mixed with the bill to eliminate fines for lack of balance that other notes attribute to a legislator on July 24 and that this pick does not take. Here the public act is the announcement of reactivation in October.

Source: NotiCel. https://noticel.com/ultima-hora/20260722/carreteras-anuncia-la-reactivacion-de-las-multas-de-autoexpreso-a-partir-de-octubre/