Motorway Tolls

[jimenato]

Does anyone know when they drop from their ridiculously high summer levels to the more reasonable winter rate? I'm particularly interested in the three toll stretches between Sotogrande and Malaga but I expect it's the same everywhere on the coast.

Thanks in anticipation...

ETA I don't know why I put this in La Tasca

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by jimenato

Does anyone know when they drop from their ridiculously high summer levels to the more reasonable winter rate? I'm particularly interested in the three toll stretches between Sotogrande and Malaga but I expect it's the same everywhere on the coast.

Thanks in anticipation...

ETA I don't know why I put this in La Tasca:confused:

neither do I.............so I moved it

[Alcalaina]

Originally Posted by jimenato

Does anyone know when they drop from their ridiculously high summer levels to the more reasonable winter rate? I'm particularly interested in the three toll stretches between Sotogrande and Malaga but I expect it's the same everywhere on the coast.

Thanks in anticipation...

ETA I don't know why I put this in La Tasca

Probably mid-September when the schools go back?

We went down that way early October last year and I'm pretty sure they were at the lower rate.

[Hepa]

Motorways, ah yes I remember, one runs from London to Leeds

[jimenato]

I asked the chap in the toll booth today and he said 1st Oct.

[gus-lopez]

I don't mind paying paying the tolls if I've got too , but I expect to be driving along the road once I've paid them , not sat in 17 km queues just to pay !! French are the worst of the lot + they're widening roads to 4 lanes ( in the holiday season ! ) which should have been done 20 years ago. All the surfaces are ****. I haven't driven on concrete since they dualled the A30 at Exeter , I thought I was going to go deaf.

[NotinUse]

What's a motorway toll, actually I did get caught once in France for €0.80 when I missed the exit and it took me 2 days to get over it

******. Driving to Torrelevega on Monday and forgot about the tolls.

Boo hiss

[jimenato]

Originally Posted by NotinUse

What's a motorway toll, actually I did get caught once in France for €0.80 when I missed the exit and it took me 2 days to get over it

It's a good point actually. I have stopped using the expensive bits of toll and used the N340 instead and it takes very little extra time. Even the bit through San Pedro where they're building a tunnel and the next bit through from Marbella to Fuengirola (The Highway of Death) don't seem to take much longer. There doesn't seem to be that much traffic on them at the moment. I honestly think that some of what you save is lost because you have to stop to pay the toll.

Originally Posted by jimenato

...and the next bit through from Marbella to Fuengirola (The Highway of Death)

Do tell? Sounds like the road to Basra during Gulf War Part One.