The toll of discord. While the highway between Paris and Caen is now equipped with free-flow, barrier-free tolls, motorists are divided on the interest of this new process. Some people fail to get into the habit of paying online after their trip and fear fines. “New gas plant. […] It only takes one day late to have penalties higher than the toll price, it’s scandalous», users declare at the microphone of TF1.
If payment is not made within 72 hours, the cost of the trip is increased to 90 euros and may increase up to 375 euros. A motorist also told the channel that she had seen “an announcement at the entrance to the highway, then nothing”before receiving a letter telling her that she had not paid on time. Online payment is, for others, a constraint which can penalize “elderly people who don’t have internet or who don’t know what’s going on.”.
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Smoother traffic
Car rental companies are also impacted by this change, reports the channel. Indeed, agencies must now take time to process more fines in order to transmit them to the highway company. Although Sanef has not yet taken stock of this experiment, some have noted smoother traffic and fewer slowdowns on the path that leads the capital to Normandy.
