Car cleaner, cheaper tolls? – Les Echos

Car cleaner, cheaper tolls? – Les Echos

According to the “JDD”, the government plans to pay more for tolls to vehicles that pollute the most

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Differentiated tolls, soon started? This is what in any case understands the “JDD”. In its edition of Sunday, December 28, the “Sunday Journal” ensures that the government plans to pay less clean vehicles. Differentiated tolls that would benefit and the electric and hybrid vehicles, , but also users carpoolers. Conversely, the most polluting diesel would like better involved, analyzes the newspaper

Asked about i & gt;. TV, the Secretary of State for Transport has not Alain Vidal denied the will of the State to encourage the use of clean cars but, however, denied the assumption that this would lead to higher prices on tolls for the most polluting vehicles. “There are discussions and proposals that may be made on cuts, tariff cuts for clean vehicles. But this can lead to the fact that there would be a penalty or an increase for diesel vehicles. I think there was there a shortcut that rests on no foundation “, he said.

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From his <- - sdvenc> Meanwhile, the “JDD” quotes a source close to the government, which says that the draft “green pricing” would be “consistent with the public policy of sustainable development and the development of electric vehicles,” .

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strained relations between the government and the SCA

The government is opposed to highway concessionaires (SCA) regarding the increase of 0.57% under February 1, 2015 as part of the annual increases planned in the concession agreements. Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal wished a toll freeze in 2015. Relations between the SCA and the government are strained, particularly after the publication in mid-September by the Competition Authority a report denouncing “annuity” of these companies since privatization in 2006, amid toll rates rising faster than inflation.

The PS MP Jean-Paul Chanteguet, rapporteur of a fact-finding mission on the highways, called a “Termination of Contracts” with the SCA, assessing the amount of the termination fee to “25 30 billion euros “. Sunday cited source by the “JDD” evokes discussions “become more constructive, even if we work with a deep rethinking of contracts” .

The new green pricing project, however, is complex to implement, the newspaper said. “The identification of car tolls could go through a sticker that would classify them by level of pollution” writes “JDD” which states that the device has yet to be finalized next week.