Transport Minister Requests Discount on Motorway Fees During Summer Holidays

“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 the motorway companies make a commercial gesture, make a reduction, a rebate, ”declared the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune on RTL this Wednesday.

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.

Vinci promises “20% discount on the toll to holiday voucher users”

In a press release published on its website, the Vinci Autoroutes group, which notably manages the A10, A11 or A7 motorways and others in the south of France, announced that it would “offer this summer a 20% discount on the toll to users of holiday vouchers”.

“Anyone funding their Ulys Liber-t Vacances electronic toll subscription with holiday vouchers between June 15 and July 31, from 20 euros to 250 euros, will benefit from a matching contribution of 20% of the Amount paid. The amount credited can be used to pay for any future motorway journey, whether it is made this summer or later, ”explains the company.