The end of an aberration. Today, the firefighters pay tolls as any motorist when they take to the highway to get faster to the places of their intervention outside of these axes. They have the right to free, only when their mission highway. From July, over these shades of the absurd.
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Now, regardless of the place where their surgery, they will be racing on the highway without purse untie. “Free for the emergency vehicles in the intervention will be introduced from the 1st or the 14th of July”, explained Wednesday morning the chairman of Vinci autoroutes Pierre Coppey, during a hearing before the commission on sustainable development in the Senate. A measure that, for once, does not give rise to compensation for the motorway companies.
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If the latter have agreed to pay for this shortfall, it is that it is anecdotal. In a period where the principle of the toll motorway is not very popular, the dealers did not want to put fire to the powder for so little. In any case, the principle of this gratuity is not a surprise.
The minister of Transport had announced in early April. “It is a measure of common sense and of general interest”, had declared at the time Elizabeth Terminal. This measure should have been introduced much earlier: she had been voted in an amendment to the finance act 2018 was adopted in the fall of 2017 unanimously.
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The measure was not entered in the application, because the decree of application was not released. During the summer of 2018, the mp LR, Éric Ciotti, had been recalled by the State to its obligations. It has been a long time before being heard. This is only a few weeks ago that the government has reached an agreement with the concessionaires of the highway to implement free tolls for fire in response.
