Question 14958 — road transport

Summary

Mr. Julien Limongi questions the Minister of Transport about Mr. Julien Limongi questions the Minister of Transport about the continued increase in motorway toll rates in France and the growing protests to which they are the subject. Indeed, a collective action recently initiated before the Council of State aims to challenge the legality of the price increases applied by motorway concession companies. This procedure is based in particular on the observation that the successive increases in tolls which could be disconnected from the real cost of the service provided and legally contestable. The applicants thus believe that a significant “overpayment” would have been taken from users. More broadly, numerous public reports have already highlighted the particularly high profitability of motorway concession companies, fueling the feeling of an imbalance structural to the detriment of users. This situation directly questions the concession model resulting from the privatization that took place in the mid-2000s, in which an essential infrastructure of general interest is operated by private actors generating significant profits. In this context, this legal challenge illustrates a crisis of legitimacy of the current system and relaunches the debate on public control. highway infrastructure. Also, he asks him if the Government intends to draw the consequences of this situation by thoroughly re-examining the motorway concession contracts as well as the measures it is considering to guarantee toll pricing strictly proportionate to the real cost of the public service.

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