Should we lower the price of tolls in the event of work?
On the highway, you pay for a service: take a road that saves you time.But if, due to work, you cannot drive at maximum speed, should you pay less ...
17/06/2022
On the highway, you pay for a service: take a road that saves you time.But if, due to work, you cannot drive at maximum speed, should you pay less?A bill goes in this direction.
The highways are similar to a subscription to call: these are services for which we pay, and in return, the customer must have what he paid for.However, very often, highways are the subject of work, which oblige regulators to review the maximum authorized speed.So much so that the time saving compared to an out -of -motor route is reduced, without the price moving.You always pay the same price, but you can no longer drive at 130: you are limited to 110 or even 90 km/h.
The LREM deputy Julien Borowczyk has precisely tabled a bill aimed at reducing the price of tolls according to the periods of work.He even goes so far as to denounce work that pushes the "sur-entretian" highways, to the detriment of the "consumer".
"When work is undertaken on the highway tracks, these have an impact on the fluidity of the journey and therefore the total duration. However the prices in force corresponds to a service rendered to motorists. The choice of the latter to useThe paid fast tracks is often motivated by the duration of the journey which is shorter. This is why, when the duration of the journey is extended due to the work, the amendment proposes that the prices are adjusted down to takeIn account the difference of the service rendered during the time of the work. The methods of calculating these adjusted prices are fixed by decree in the Council of State ".
Faire payer les sociétés autoroutières pour les interventions de forces de l'ordreAnd that's not all, since the deputy's bill contains a paragraph on the reimbursement that the motorway companies should make in the event of mobilization of police:
"The second article aims to set up a reimbursement of the interventions of the security forces on motorways by highway concessionary companies.
When we are on the road, any accident can happen.In some cases, we can, even we must call on the services of the police.This approach seems completely normal insofar as the missions of the police are the maintenance of public order and security.This seems all the more normal since the roads are part of the public domain.The concept of intervention within the framework of the maintenance of order and security is more complex when the said intervention takes place on a highway, whose management and therefore the profits are conceded to a private company.
Without calling into question the participation of concession companies in highways in the state budget via taxation;It would be interesting for the latter to participate directly in the financing of the expenses incurred within the framework of the interventions of the police on the roads of which they have the management. "
The deputy hopes that his bill will be voted by this summer, even if the motorway companies did not wish to respond.