Sunday, December 28, 2014

Tolls: the government wants cheaper rates for … – Le Parisien

Tolls: the government wants cheaper rates for … – Le Parisien

December 28 2014, 11:50 | Updated: December 28 2014 12:39

The government, a showdown opposes the motorway companies on toll rates, promised quickly find concrete solutions to lower motorway tolls.

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Among the mentioned tracks, it would consider require operators to offer volume discounts depending on the degree of vehicle pollution. In other words, clean vehicles would pay less. These differentiated tolls would benefit electric and hybrid vehicles as well as those by carpooling says “Sunday Journal”. Conversely, the most polluting diesel would like more involved.

The newspaper quoted a source close to the government explains that the draft “green pricing” would be “consistent with the public policy of sustainable development and development of electric vehicles. “

The government is opposed to highway concessionaires (SCA) about the planned increase of 0.57% to 1 February 2015 as part of the increases Annual programmed in the concession agreements. Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal wished freezing the tolls in 2015. Relations between the SCA and the government are strained especially after the publication in mid-September by the Competition Authority a report denouncing the “annuity of these companies since privatization in 2006, amid increasing tolls faster than inflation.

difficult to implement pricing

PS MP Jean-Paul Chanteguet, rapporteur of a fact-finding mission on the highways, called a “termination of existing contracts” with the SCA, assessing the amount of the termination fee to “25-30000000000 euros “. Sunday cited source by JDD evokes discussions “become more constructive even if we work with a deep rethinking of contracts.”

The new green pricing project however is complex to implement, the newspaper said. “The identification of car tolls could go through a sticker that would classify them by level of pollution,” he thinks to know that the device is to be finalized next week.

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