French Tolls

Are the tolls dependent on how far you go on the french autoroutes, or do
you pay once and ride as far as you like?

 

What do you think?

 

If you roll up to the booth and pronounce that you are English and so
deserve to go through for free then you'll be waved on with a smile.

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He's Jeremy's stupider brother, isn't he?

 

Hang on, doesn't your passport bearer ride on ahead of you to clear the
way. It makes for much speedier progress, honestly.

 

You do ask an awful lot of fucking stupid questions. A thank you
occasionally might also be helpful.

 

Well I didn't know either, so I looked here
http://rentacar-europe.com/france/driving-france.htm

Some useful info as well about things I didn't know about when driving
abroad
as I don't drive or ride abroad that much.
So maybe that'll answer your question

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Well, with me, people usually ride on ahead to pre-order the emergency
services ;-)

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With a discount scheme if you demonstrate a standing wheelie through
the peage.

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enough." -- Mario Andretti

 

It's free, as you approach the toll booth cross over to the opposite
carriageway, dodge any oncoming traffic and flash your lights, the
operator will acknowledge that you're *damn British*, raise the
barrier and wave you merrily on your way [1]

[1] Don't forget to cross backover as not all French drivers are aware
of this arrangement. [2]

[2] This arrangement *might* have changed by the time you go. )

 

And don't forget not to speed between booths.

 

I'm struggling to work out if this is sarcasm or serious. I'll give you
the benefit of the doubt and assume it's the former.

I don't know *anyone* who's been caught for speeding based on his peage
tickets.

Maybe it happens, but it's not that common.

 

Most of the tolls are by distance travelled, but there are still a few that
are a set price to go through (from memory think the A4 approach to Paris
and and one of the autoroutes down towards Chamonix.

Worth bearing in mind that not all sections of the autoroutes are tolls, so
if you are averse to paying them you might be able to plan a route with a
mixture of (non-toll) autoroutes and the other roads. To be honest a lot of
French lorries take the alternative routes to avoid the tolls, whcih can be
a pain in a car but on a bike should be fine).

 

It's charged on the total time you've been on the autoroute. They're trying
to reduce congestion by encouraging drivers to get off the autoroute faster,
so the higher your average speed, the less you pay. This is why we like
France so much, and why the Frankfurt Away Team kept off the autoroutes as
much as possible.

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On the Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:37:11 +0100, YTC#1 <> waffled :

Sorry dude, that's wrong. It'd require that all the booths be synchronised
and at the moment [1], they're not.

[1] Watch this space, as it's being talked about.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

St Quentin to Calais on a peage in a hair over 45 minutes. It's a myth,
trust me. <BEG>

 

Nigel Eaton wrote in

There always seem to be gendarmes with tripod mounted radars [1] on the
autoroutes in the StQ area. Never seen them pull over a bike though.

[1] with a gaggle of pursuit bikes waiting in the Aire de Wotsit 1km down
the road

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

I was a little twitchy about them, but this was a Sunday morning and I
saw no law about at all. Not many other vehicles either! Glorious it
was, cruising at 150 slowing slightly past rest points (in case the
erficers of the leu were about) and easing off occasionally to rest my
neck muscles.

Mined ewe 109 miles to reserve on a ZZR11 was a bit of a surprise...

 

I was being polite.

Why did I do that? I think I need to go and lie down.

 

It was tried out around 1978/9 and immediately disbanded as it
contravened one of the French laws. (So I was told)

I was done in 1978 on the Dijon Lyon bit of A6 by the time stamps on my
ticket. ( English reg XJ6) There was also a gendarme at the booth who
pointed out the error of my ways. There is a rumour going around that
they are thinking of bringing something like it back in again but it is
not happening yet.

The only other time I was pulled over at a French toll booth by a
gendarme I had been radar-ed on the A4 Metz Strasboug road and they
radioed ahead. (German reg Rover SD1)

French speeding fines were like telephone numbers when they were in FF.