Payant v non-payant autoroutes

[Stonker]

Does anybody know of an online map/sire which showns which autoroutes are paid for and which are free?

 

[wessie]

www.viamichelin.com will calculate the toll cost for you on a route - I think you can alter the settings to avoid toll roads

 

[Stonker]

thanks but i was looking for a simple map

 

[ChasF]

 

[Stonker]

Thanks. Are the dark blue bits the ones you pay for?

 

[newboy]

yes - they are

 

[red1]

I always thought that Garmin and Tomtom should show toll roads on their maps so you could route around them.
We do Calais to Bordeaux regular and have to just accept the automatic no tolls route on the 660.

 

[Blackal]

I always thought that Garmin and Tomtom should show toll roads on their maps so you could route around them.
We do Calais to Bordeaux regular and have to just accept the automatic no tolls route on the 660.

On Garmin - you can select "Avoid Toll Roads" in your preferences (on Mapsource or the Nuvi/Zumo)

Al

 

[Two wheels good]

www.viamichelin.com shows peages in a different colour - just like their paper maps

 

[ChasF]

They only charge where there is a viable alternative route which is free, for example the A20 when constructed destroyed the old RN20 so it's free most of the way.

 

[Jonnybiscuit]

On Garmin - you can select "Avoid Toll Roads" in your preferences (on Mapsource or the Nuvi/Zumo)

Al

Same on TomTom

 

[red1]

On Garmin - you can select "Avoid Toll Roads" in your preferences (on Mapsource or the Nuvi/Zumo)

Al

Yes, but my point was that I would like to put together my own route rather than the Garmin avoidance method.

 

[mumpa]

I still thought the road from Clermont Ferrand going south was free, only paying at the Millau Bridge??

When I used to have to travel to Spain, I'd often go that route as it was better fun to drive/ride than the A10

 

[red1]

I still thought the road from Clermont Ferrand going south was free, only paying at the Millau Bridge??

When I used to have to travel to Spain, I'd often go that route as it was better fun to drive/ride than the A10

Was free down to Montpellier couple of years ago. Didn't think it had changed.

 

[Roymondo]

One of the problems with the TomTom approach to toll roads (I think Garmin is much the same) is that the option to avoid tolls is binary - i.e. You choose to accept or reject *all* toll roads, while the best compromise might be to accept one or two while routing around the others. I think the viamichelin website uses a better approach as it "knows" what the tolls cost and can come up with a route that minimises tolls without avoiding them altogether.


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I am here: http://tapatalk.com/map.php?1hp2gb

 

[mrsroynie]

This map is too simplistic and poorly labelled to be really useful. I'm guessing the road north from Toulouse in pale grey is actually the A20, which (as per the map) is mostly free. But where the A20 joins the A71 at Vierzon, it becomes 'peage' until Paris (A10). The A64 (from Biarritz to Toulouse) also has quite substantial free sections, which isn't evident from this small map. If I can spot these 'deficiencies' based on our regular journeys, it is reasonable to assume there will be others.

The website it comes from is essentially the same as other route-planning tools, i.e. you plumb in your proposed route and the site calculates the toll charges for you.

 

[Piaf]

Not a map but a list......

http://routes.wikia.com/wiki/Liste_des_sections_d'autoroutes_françaises_gratuites

 

[Tim Cullis]

I have a different approach, I bought a plasticised version of the Michelin 792 map then marked up with a highlighter all the free motorways, PLUS all the free motorway-standard dual carriageways.

The map above shows the A10 from Poitiers to Bordeaux as a toll motorway, but the better alternative is the N10 which is almost as good as a motorway and has just two sections--each of about 5km--which are single carriageway, the rest is motorway-standard dual carriageway.

 

[wessie]

here's an interactive map that highlights toll roads and you can click different sections to get the toll rates for each section
http://www.autoroutes.fr/fr/les-principaux-tarifs-2012.htm

I viewed it using the auto-translate function in the Google Chrome browser

 

[Old Man]

Certainly you'll have to pay all the way on the A71 Clermont to Paris.