The price of tolls on motorways will be reassessed by 0.92% on average in 2025.
The increase should still be almost twice as low as inflation.
Taking the highway in 2025 will cost (a little) more. Motorway tolls will increase by 0.92% on average in 2025, a rate lower than that of inflation forecast by the Bank of France, a source close to the matter told AFP, confirming information from the Parisian (new window). This average increase is also “lower” to the increase in tolls in 2018 and 2019, “i.e. before the health crisis and before the energy shock linked to the war in Ukraine”notes the same source.
Application from February 1
“This decision is the result of a real battle that the minister led to defend the purchasing power of the French, as he knows the daily weight that mobility represents in the household budget”argues the entourage of the Minister of Transport, François Durovray. This increase applied every February 1, a recurring political-economic soap opera, had been around 3% on average this year and 4.75% in 2023, a consequence in particular of inflation. The Banque de France currently estimates that price increases will reach 1.5% next year.
In addition to inflation, the annual evolution of motorway prices is calculated on the basis of the investment plans of the concession companies. On November 13, François Durovray said he was determined to “reinvent the model” highways at the end of the current concessions, after a meeting with their managers. The ministry then announced that a conference on the future of mobility financing planned for early 2025 would integrate the issue of “motorway network management”. The end of the main concessions is planned between 2031 and 2036.
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On October 23, a report submitted to the Senate recommended maintaining motorway tolls at the end of the current concessions, very profitable for their managers, but to reform their model in depth, by reducing the duration of the contracts and the number of kilometers of each concession to avoid the control of a handful of big players.
The price of tolls could remain stable, but part of the sums collected would be devoted to the maintenance of non-concessioned motorways, national roads which are deteriorating, or the railway network, according to this report from the centrist senator of Eure Hervé Maurey.
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