Tolls beyond the means of the French? While inflation strangles French households, the Minister Delegate for Transport encourages motorway companies to grant a “rebate” to motorists during the summer holidays. Clément Beaune called for a reduction in the price of tolls for the summer, at least equivalent to the 10% granted last year to those who paid with holiday vouchers.
“We are a few weeks away from the big departures on vacation which will take place from the end of June at the beginning of July, for many French people. We know that we are in a difficult period, of inflation, of difficulties in purchasing power. And so I think (…) that, in this context, it is important that motorway companies make a commercial gesture, make a reduction, a rebate, ”said Clément Beaune on RTL.
The “modalities” discussed next week
The main motorway companies had granted a 10% reduction last summer on the journeys of holders of an electronic toll badge if they paid with holiday vouchers. “I would like us to have a gesture at least equivalent this year for families going on vacation by road” and that the measure be applied from the first departures and not in mid-July like last year, said he said.
Clément Beaune said he was going to discuss the “modalities” with the motorway companies next week. “We need this gesture, it is my responsibility as Minister of Transport. I am not minister of motorway companies, I am minister of all French people who go on vacation and who also travel by car, “he noted, describing in passing as “demagogy” the proposal of the deputy LFI François Ruffin to make the highways free this summer.