The price of motorway tolls is expected to increase by 2% on average on February 1, 2022, after an increase of 0.44% at the start of 2021. The Government has yet to approve these new tariffs. Exasperated, the association 40 million motorists relaunches its petition “stop too expensive tolls”.
Motorists’ budgets are not being spared. While fuel prices are still high, a new increase in toll prices is on the way. According to figures from the Ministry of Transport, consulted by AFP, they should increase by 2% on average at 1er February 2022.
” The strongest increase since 2012 “
According to preliminary information, the ASF network – the largest in France with its 2,627 km of sections – should increase its tariffs by 2.19%. The APRR network, the second largest concession with 1,812 km of track, plans to increase prices by 2.05%. In 2021, the price increase was 0.44% on average, with disparities depending on the network of between 0.30 and 0.65%. This was the smallest increase recorded in twenty years. The years go by but are not alike …
The association “40 million motorists” already denounces ” another unacceptable price increase, the biggest since 2012! ” and relaunches its online petition www.stopauxpeagestropchers.com. This price increase, which the motorway companies have confirmed to AFP, has yet to be formally approved by the Government. ” The motorway concession companies who planned this price increase seem to have forgotten that three years ago, before the Covid episode, the fall in toll prices was one of the main demands of the yellow vests »Recalls Daniel Quéro, the president of the association for the defense of motorists.
Why are the prices of motorway tolls rising?
The contracts that bind the motorway companies to the State are very strict. They plan to an automatic increase in toll prices every year on 1er February, depending in particular on inflation and projects undertaken on the network.
Since the summer, the rise in consumer prices has accelerated in France: inflation fell from 1.2% over one year in July to 2.8% in November. According to INSEE, “ this rise in inflation would result from an acceleration in the prices of energy, manufactured products and, to a lesser extent, services “. According to a source close to the dealers who confided to AFP, ” toll rates at 1er February 2022 will not increase more than inflation “.
