Tolls beyond the means of the French? While inflation strangles French households, the Minister Delegate for Transport encourages motorway companies to concede a "rebate" to motorists during the summer holidays. Clément Beaune called for a reduction in the price of tolls for the summer, at least equivalent to the 10% granted last year to those who paid in holiday vouchers.

"We are a few weeks away from the big holiday departures that will be from the end of June to the beginning of July, for many French people. We know that we are in a difficult period, of inflation, of difficulties on purchasing power. And so I think (...) that, in this context, it is important that motorway companies make a commercial gesture, make a reduction, a discount, "said Clément Beaune on RTL.

"Modalities" to be discussed next week

The main motorway companies had conceded last summer a 10% discount on the journeys of holders of an electronic toll badge if they paid in holiday vouchers. "I hope that we have at least an equivalent gesture this year for families who go on holiday by road" and that the measure is applied from the first departures and not in mid-July as last year, he said.

Clément Beaune said he would discuss the "modalities" with the motorway companies next week. "We need this gesture, it's my responsibility as Minister of Transport. I am not minister of motorway companies, I am minister of all French people who go on holiday and who also circulate by car, "he noted, describing in passing as "demagogy" the proposal of LFI deputy François Ruffin to make motorways free this summer.

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