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These motorists who flee the exorbitant rates of the highways

2023-02-17T16:23:52.348Z


INQUIRY – The purchasing power crisis, the rise in toll and fuel prices are putting the French back on the roads of the secondary network. The opportunity to rediscover the country.


National 7/ You have to take it when you go to Rome, Sète…”.

The economic crisis is now reviving the heyday of this route celebrated by Charles Trenet.

With one nuance: less for tourism than to spare your wallet.

Faced with the constant increase in the price of tolls, which is combined this year with a drop in purchasing power, more and more motorists are abandoning the motorways for secondary roads.

A break in the habits of the French, which, even if it is above all guided by financial reasons, gives them back a feeling of freedom, of reconquering lost landscapes.

Leaving the vast ribbons of asphalt, where they swallow haggardly the kilometers and the sandwiches as bad as expensive in the service stations, they rediscover France.

We stop in towns and cities, we visit castles and churches, and we leave with local specialties bought in small shops.

Read alsoHighways: Vinci makes a move on toll rates for short journeys

“By reconsidering the journeys, the holidays…

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Source: lefigaro

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