September 2006 for 1 return trip (X-Strasbourg) from Metz: 13.2 euros
September 2007 for the same return: 22.4 euros
If I calculate correctly, it's still: 70% increase in 1 year!
I don't know how much it is currently ...
So as an econologist, you will tell me that I should tell myself that it is good ... it limits the use of the car ...
Nonsense! Indeed; the SNCF clearly aligns its prices on road transport and I would like to know the evolution of the prices of an SNCF trip between the same period ... and in any case the SNCF aligns itself with a car with only one person. So it is enough to be 1 by car for it to be clearly cheaper than the train ... except exceptional promotion of the SNCF (style take your ticket 2 months in advance ...) ...
Then, SANEF is, like all motorway management companies, a private company that benefits from public investments. And all this is probably linked to its IPO in 2005 (a bit expected so that it is not too obvious ...):
According to Wiki: http://bit.ly/8evkO2
Creation 1963
Key dates IPO on June 24, 2005;
privatization in June 2005; buyout by the HIT consortium in 2006
Privatisation
On December 14, 2005, the French government decided to sell Sanef to the Spanish group Abertis.
This sale became effective on February 3, 2006. The Holding Company of Transport Infrastructures (HIT), which brings together around Abertis the Caisse des Dépôts, Predica, the Axa Group, the Société foncière, financier et de participations (FFP) and CNP Assurances, acquired that day, from the State and the public establishment Autoroutes de France, 75,65% of the shares of the Société des autoroutes du nord et de l'Est de la France (Sanef) for a price per share of 58 € uros, ie a total of 4,03 billion euros for this participation.
Since 2006, Sanef has also had the concession with Eiffage of the A65 Langon - Pau motorway within the A'lienor group.
Controversy over motorway tariffs
In early June 2009, several dailies denounced increases in motorway tariffs [1].
In fact, on May 31, 2009, motorway tolls increased by 1,89% on average on the Sanef network in northern and eastern France (A1, A2, A4, A16, A26, A29. According to Sanef, the increases take place once a year and are stopped by the state.
The newspaper Le Parisien, however, points out that the Sanef tariffs had already increased on December 1, 2008 by 3,3% and those of the Sapn by 4,3%. The price of a passing Paris-Lille (as of 01/06/2009) was now 14,60 € instead of 14,20 €.
