A St. Charles TER train station in Marseille (illustration). – ROUSSEL / SIPA
    • 09/05/2016 at 3:11
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France’s lifestyle is extravagant. The Hexagon is the 5th most expensive countries in Europe for the price of
 rail, but is among the cheapest to the plane and the bus, according to a study
 German online tour operator GoEuro published Monday.

For the study, more than 300 million domestic trips made in 40 countries between April 2015 and April 2016 were studied and their cost reduced to a distance of 100 km . To train, France and arrives 5th of 36 (some countries do not have rail) with an average price of 17.59 euros per 100 km, far from the Swiss mountains (47.44 euros) and behind the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium (between 20.50 and 23.50 euros).

the cheapest cars in France and Macedonia

Conversely, “the price of cars remains very reasonable in France” with an average cost of 4.78 euros per 100 km, which places the Hexagon in 25th place out of 40, between Macedonia and Estonia.

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The rise of the “Macron cars”, which just celebrated their first birthday, however based on price very low call, which should increase rapidly and back in the rankings, also dominated by Switzerland (16.33 euros).

“Despite appearances, France has quite reasonable transport ‘

in addition, France is 17th on 24 for the cost of domestic flights (in countries where they exist), with an airline ticket sold an average of 14.74 euros per 100 km. This price is the same height as those of Norway and Italy, but well below the stratospheric levels of Denmark (54.72 euro), Finland and the Czech Republic (50 euros).

All transport modes, France ranks 11th out of 40, with a cost of 12.37 euros per 100 km, above the European average (10.70 euros). “Despite appearances, France has quite reasonable price of transportation,” says GoEuro in a statement, explaining that if the trains are relatively expensive, “the low cost and the opening of the transport market because of possible to significantly lower the price of 100 km “

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