The president socialist of the region of Occitania, has asked the dealers to give free access to the highways throughout the summer. It is neither realistic, n
The president socialist of the region of Occitania, has asked the dealers to give free access to the highways throughout the summer.
It is neither realistic, nor desirable, to require this been free of tolls among motorway companies, said Tuesday Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, secretary of State for Transport, responding to a request from the president of the regional council of Occitania. “This position, we understand, is a little political,” said Djebbari on BFMTV. “On the practical and contractual, it is quite ineffective”.
A source of significant revenues
It was in response to a request made late last week by Carole Delga, president socialist of the region of Occitania, from 2016 and former secretary of State responsible for Trade (2014-15), who has maintained his position on Tuesday. She asked the dealers to give free access to the highways throughout the summer, in the idea to help with the holiday traffic and the recovery of the tourism sector.
“Carole Delga knows very well that all this is established and managed by contracts that were not negotiated by us, but which continue to apply,” said Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, alluding to the privatisation of the French motorways in the years 2000. “If Ms. Delga wants to repay the level of tolls to the concession companies in Occitania, I invite him to get in touch with the dealer in question”, he ironisé.
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The secretary of State, who recalled that the dealers had made toll free for the health crisis for carers, has found that it was not desirable to deprive these companies of a source of income in the current context. “We still need the dealers to make investments fairly major”, he believed, referring in particular to the installation of terminals for electric vehicles.
in recent there are currently more than 24 000 on the entire road network, licensed or not, and Jean-Baptiste Djebarri judge possible to increase their number to 100,000 by 2021 instead of 2022.
“purchasing power” of French
The president of the region of Occitania responded by the end of the morning by a tweet incisive : “‘Do politics’, Mr. Djebbari, it is caring people !”, launched Carole Delga on Twitter.
“Sweep up my proposal of the reverse side of the hand with this argument is not very serious. This deserves at least a round table and I am surprised of the lack of dialogue between the State and the motorway companies to adapt to this situation”, she then continued in a press release. “It is the purchasing power of the French question, but also to save the tourist season, which is one of the pillars of the national economy with nearly two million direct and indirect jobs”, she recalled.
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“I believe that in this period, the dialogue and exchange to work together to find concrete solutions to offer to our citizens must be our priority. This is why I wrote on the 18th of may to the presidents of the motorway companies in order to obtain an act of national solidarity in moderating their rates of toll for the summer of 2020”, she concluded.
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The’occitanie welcomes every year 30 million tourists for 200 million overnight stays, which has a turnover of 15.9 billion euros. This sector directly employs 100,000 people and accounts for 10% of the regional GDP.
Date Of Update: 21 May 2020, 14:59
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