French privatized toll roads.

[no_hypocrisy]

Just heard on NPR that tolls from north to south France are between $75 and $100.

Holy merde!

[Possumpoint]

1. Pendulum Swings

How short are memories? Most forget that state road systems were made to eliminate the patchwork system of private toll roads and bridges that existed at the binning of the twentieth century. People got tired of having to pay a toll at each property owner change.

[Cid_B]

2. We drove through recently from about mid to south...

... and it was more than that after you switched a few times.

[GoneOffShore]

3. Cheaper to take the train or fly internally.

[MrScorpio]

4. This was the main reason why I never drove to Paris when I lived in Germany

I never had to deal with toll roads anywhere else in Europe