Motorway tolls will experience a price increase on the 1ster February 2023, according to the Ministry of Transport. An increase lower than inflation.
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Lhe highway users will not appreciate the announcement of the Ministry of Transport made this Friday. Toll rates for the main motorway networks will increase by an average of 4.75% on 1er February 2023. Prices that had increased by 2% this year and 0.44% in 2021.
The price of the tolls is revalued every year, according to a calculation which takes into account at least 70% of inflation (excluding tobacco) over twelve months until October, and possible increases according to the work planned by the various dealers. The increase is therefore “significantly lower” than the 6.33% inflation measured by INSEE at the end of October, the ministry said in a press release. Several motorway companies are supporting this tariff change with commercial measures.
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The discount granted since the beginning of 2019 to motorists making at least ten round trips per month on the same route will increase from 30 to 40%. In addition, electric vehicles will benefit from a 5% reduction for one year on all their journeys, on the Sanef/SAPN and APRR/AREA networks, always from 1er february.
“This development is consistent with our priorities: in a context of inflation, limiting price increases for daily life by protecting those who have to use the car to go to work and by encouraging the ecological transition”, commented the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, quoted in the press release.
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