Very stricky contracts linking highway companies to the state provide for an automatic increase in toll tariffs every year on February 1, in particular, in particular, inflation and construction sites undertaken on the network.
Le Monde with AFP
They were supposed to increase less quickly than inflation. The tolls of motorway networks ultimately increase by about 2% as of the February 1, after an increase of 0.44% at the beginning of 2021, according to a series of decrees of the Ministry of the ecological transition published in the newspaper Official , Sunday, January 30th.
For cars (Class 1 vehicle), rates increase by 1.89% on the network Cofiroute , 2.19% on ASF , 1.91% on SANEF and SAPN , or 2.05% on APRR ; Official increases that confirm the figures of the Department of Transport reported in December by the France-Press agency (AFP).
Very stricky contracts linking highway companies to the state provide for an automatic increase in toll tariffs every year at the same time, in particular, in particular, of inflation and Projects undertaken on the network.
Fear of inflation
“Toll rates at 1 Er February 2022 will not increase more than inflation,” had insisted a source close to dealers in December. Inflation in France accelerated 1.6% over the whole year 2021, on average annual, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), at the highest since 2018, under the Effect of fleeing energy prices and rising prices for manufactured goods. In December, consumer prices rose 2.8% over one year.
In early 2019, in full challenge for “yellow vests”, the government had requested a gesture to highway companies and obtained a 30% reduction in regular drivers, failing a decline for all .
The government had rejected the idea of freezing toll rates, as Ségolène Royal had decided, then Minister of Ecology, in 2015, because it would have had to catch up later.