French autoroute costs - HOW MUCH???
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Fatt McMissile said:
...TROP VITE. Not seen that before, bit of a shock. Won't be long before it has our names on it.....and pehaps charge the tag account with the fine......
Steve
I did check the small print for stuff like that but they say they keep your personal info private...for now...Steve
The 'Trop Vite' notices have been around for a couple of years, see our number shown a few times, we were picked up by one during the night a few weeks ago, bit scary when out of the darkness your reg number appears.
Interesting how the French system can read English plates as well as French presumably, whilst in UK we are told that the format of plates is vital for the ANPR cameras to read them.
Interesting how the French system can read English plates as well as French presumably, whilst in UK we are told that the format of plates is vital for the ANPR cameras to read them.
The latest Bip&Go tag works in Spain too, just sayin 
Needs a French bank A/C though.
https://www.bipandgo.com/en/
Needs a French bank A/C though.
https://www.bipandgo.com/en/
Is there an equivalent of a road/price comparison for the French autoroutes? (IE getting off a stop early or a slightly different route making a significant difference in cost).
I'm off to Gridelwald in Switzerland next month (from Calais) and need to get there swiftly, in the same day, but if I can save a few quid in tolls, I'll look at it.
Thanks.
I'm off to Gridelwald in Switzerland next month (from Calais) and need to get there swiftly, in the same day, but if I can save a few quid in tolls, I'll look at it.
Thanks.
A900ss said:
Is there an equivalent of a road/price comparison for the French autoroutes? (IE getting off a stop early or a slightly different route making a significant difference in cost).
I'm off to Gridelwald in Switzerland next month (from Calais) and need to get there swiftly, in the same day, but if I can save a few quid in tolls, I'll look at it.
Thanks.
I think this is what you are looking for. https://www.autoroute-eco.fr/index.htmlI'm off to Gridelwald in Switzerland next month (from Calais) and need to get there swiftly, in the same day, but if I can save a few quid in tolls, I'll look at it.
Thanks.
It's possible to reduce the cost by going off and back on at the same junction so breaking your journey in two reduces the cost.
Tolls are priced like uk trains where there's demand there's high prices, prices from unpopular exits are lower.
No logic but true.
The sites a bit slow but good luck.
Ken Figenus said:
And I drove over a catseye once giving a 1E surcharge!
What? Aren't catseyes designed to be driven over - it isn't easy to avoid them when changing lanes at speed.
And how do they know if you drive over a cats-eye?
EDIT: I think I just realised that's a huge WHOOOSSHHH for me!
Edited by GoneAnon on Friday 24th February 20:42
Just in case you didn't know that prices vary by who is running the autoroute.
To Switzerland unless you age the nationals it's pay all the way.
When heading south go the west side of Paris and down, it saves at least 70 euros in tolls as long stretches are free.
Just like going South west.
You can go Caen to Nantes for free before going in to Bordeaux.
I've spent 4 hours on French motorways today!
Another tag user here, funny as my family who live in France don't have one! Still it saves waking up my wife to pay the tolls and is generally very convenient.
To Switzerland unless you age the nationals it's pay all the way.
When heading south go the west side of Paris and down, it saves at least 70 euros in tolls as long stretches are free.
Just like going South west.
You can go Caen to Nantes for free before going in to Bordeaux.
I've spent 4 hours on French motorways today!
Another tag user here, funny as my family who live in France don't have one! Still it saves waking up my wife to pay the tolls and is generally very convenient.
We make the journey from Calais to Nice quite regularly, use a Sanef tag, and the bill is typically £100.
It's not cheap, but I think we've only ever been in a traffic jam once (an accident) and the roads are 100% better than they are in the UK.
We don't pay a monthly charge - not sure if that's a new thing?
Personally I would happily pay the same sort of fees in the UK if they abolished road tax, but that's never going to happen is it, and admittedly, I don't do so many motorway miles in the UK.
It's not cheap, but I think we've only ever been in a traffic jam once (an accident) and the roads are 100% better than they are in the UK.
We don't pay a monthly charge - not sure if that's a new thing?
Personally I would happily pay the same sort of fees in the UK if they abolished road tax, but that's never going to happen is it, and admittedly, I don't do so many motorway miles in the UK.
slf2012 said:
We make the journey from Calais to Nice quite regularly, use a Sanef tag, and the bill is typically £100.
It's not cheap, but I think we've only ever been in a traffic jam once (an accident) and the roads are 100% better than they are in the UK.
We don't pay a monthly charge - not sure if that's a new thing?
Personally I would happily pay the same sort of fees in the UK if they abolished road tax, but that's never going to happen is it, and admittedly, I don't do so many motorway miles in the UK.
The autoroutes are high quality facilities which in general offer reasonable VFM. Its a bit of a myth to imagine theat even peages are always traffic jam free, thats not true at all of some parts of the network. Notably around Paris, Lyon, the Rhone valley and the mediteranean. It's particularly galling to sit in massive jam whilst paying for the privilegeIt's not cheap, but I think we've only ever been in a traffic jam once (an accident) and the roads are 100% better than they are in the UK.
We don't pay a monthly charge - not sure if that's a new thing?
Personally I would happily pay the same sort of fees in the UK if they abolished road tax, but that's never going to happen is it, and admittedly, I don't do so many motorway miles in the UK.
The TAGs are completely worth the 5 euro pm fee capped at 10euros annually, not just for the convenience and satisfaction but also at busy times by-passing the huge lines at peage gates
My goodness there is a load of misconception in this thread! I suggest you look here if you want to know the costs of various journeys:-
https://www.french-property.com/news/travel_france...
As regards saving time at the péage or not, try turning up on any Saturday in July or August on the main roads to and from the south without a télépéage - you'll wait an eternity to pay, and inevitably you'll be behind a Belgian or Dutch who hasn't the right money/credit card/blonde girlfriend/whatever and causes a further delay. And if you are in a RHD car on your own I suggest you buy one of those thingy's for picking up litter - I saw someone in a Caterham put his card in the machine with one!
I've had a télépéage for 15 years, and yes, they did demand a "caution" of €30 at the outset, but three years back they asked me to sign a new contract because they wanted to refund it, and so I did so. No change in the conditions at all and I do NOT pay a monthly fee, and I think nor do you, just an administration fee in the actual month you actually use it. I wonder how many of you wish, when you are in the UK, if the system might work in there. I always take the Birmingham toll road just to drive on an empty motorway, just like in France; and I always revel in the freedom of driving here, usually setting the cruise control at 150 kph since with the French system I get, if caught, one point (which lasts six months) and a paltry fine of €45. I paid one last week in fact. Compare that to the UK system of three points for any excess.
We pay here for the pure pleasure of uncongested privately-maintained motorways, and you can always take the route nationale if you feel like it; except a journey of 600 miles (Le Mans to Nice for example) will take you two days and you'll pay the cost of the hotel instead of the péage so the same thing really.
And as for the Swiss..... You arrive in Switzerland for Xmas and you pay for the whole year. And that year will finish in six days time. Now that is an expensive motorway journey since I did but 25 miles and took the back roads out of Switzerland in the New Year, otherwise I would have been caught for another whole year's toll badge.
No, you always have the choice and you can set your GPS to avoid motorways, but then you look at the journey's time difference between the two, and you pays your money and takes your choice. I always work on the fact that I can get out by paying.
https://www.french-property.com/news/travel_france...
As regards saving time at the péage or not, try turning up on any Saturday in July or August on the main roads to and from the south without a télépéage - you'll wait an eternity to pay, and inevitably you'll be behind a Belgian or Dutch who hasn't the right money/credit card/blonde girlfriend/whatever and causes a further delay. And if you are in a RHD car on your own I suggest you buy one of those thingy's for picking up litter - I saw someone in a Caterham put his card in the machine with one!
I've had a télépéage for 15 years, and yes, they did demand a "caution" of €30 at the outset, but three years back they asked me to sign a new contract because they wanted to refund it, and so I did so. No change in the conditions at all and I do NOT pay a monthly fee, and I think nor do you, just an administration fee in the actual month you actually use it. I wonder how many of you wish, when you are in the UK, if the system might work in there. I always take the Birmingham toll road just to drive on an empty motorway, just like in France; and I always revel in the freedom of driving here, usually setting the cruise control at 150 kph since with the French system I get, if caught, one point (which lasts six months) and a paltry fine of €45. I paid one last week in fact. Compare that to the UK system of three points for any excess.
We pay here for the pure pleasure of uncongested privately-maintained motorways, and you can always take the route nationale if you feel like it; except a journey of 600 miles (Le Mans to Nice for example) will take you two days and you'll pay the cost of the hotel instead of the péage so the same thing really.
And as for the Swiss..... You arrive in Switzerland for Xmas and you pay for the whole year. And that year will finish in six days time. Now that is an expensive motorway journey since I did but 25 miles and took the back roads out of Switzerland in the New Year, otherwise I would have been caught for another whole year's toll badge.
No, you always have the choice and you can set your GPS to avoid motorways, but then you look at the journey's time difference between the two, and you pays your money and takes your choice. I always work on the fact that I can get out by paying.
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