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It's similar in France, maybe half that number though. It's a good system. The one's who use the highways pay for them. The highways are in a very good state in
by dandy23 4y ago
It's similar in France, maybe half that number though. It's a good system. The one's who use the highways pay for them. The highways are in a very good state in France.
- VK538FY 4y agoThe relatively high fees on French autoroutes are offset by the good quality, yes. But the principal objection may be the way in which said autoroutes were privatized after being built with public money, no?
- ornornor 4y agoYes but it was long ago and people forgot. But yes, French citizens are paying for the autoroutes twice: built with public money and then again with tolls to use them.
- jonwinstanley 4y agoSure, you may multiple times but they don't just get built once either. There is non-stop maintenance for a road system.
- iso1631 4y agoThere's maintenence in local roads too. And maintence is broadly relative to the damage caused, which is relative to the 4th power of axel weight. A 30 ton truck will cause thousands of times the damage of a 2 ton car, but doesn't pay thousands of times the price.
- iso1631 4y agoPresumably the privatisation process involved the transfer of cash from the companies buying them to the government, and hopefully that was more than the cost of construction.