BaconEggAndBeans 9:23 Fri Aug 18
Toll Roads in Europe
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Hello
I'm due to drive to the Italian MotoGP in 3 weeks and am I right in thinking I need something called a vignette as some sort of electronic toll road payment?
Any advice on this would be appreciated, countries travelling through are, Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Austria.
Cheers
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joe royal
1:41 Mon Aug 21
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Book a tour of the Porsche factory (it's free) if you have even a slight interest in either cars or engineering you will love it .
N roads in France are free and quite fast. Plot a route using those .
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Hammer and Pickle
3:57 Mon Aug 21
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...never send to know for whom the bell tolls.
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gph
2:31 Mon Aug 21
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That said, there are at least two home brew pubs, Calwer Ecke and Sarah's, which deliver a tasty drop. Ask at the Tourist Information
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gph
2:28 Mon Aug 21
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BEAB - Stuttgart is about the most expensive place in Germany, dearer than even Munich.
Bombed to shit in the war, they've restored some mediaeval buildings, but everything is either sixteenth century or before, or 1960s or after. I don't like it much
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betrayedby the board
12:33 Mon Aug 21
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Apologises that this duplicates some of what's already been said but I've driven thousands of miles in Europe and the charging for Motorways is:
Belgium, Holland and Germany - free
Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia - vignette required. As far as I know there's no automatic way of detecting whether you have one (such as number plate recognition) but if you get stopped and haven't got one the fines are pretty steep. So you can take a chance, particularly if your not doing many miles, but I try to avoid motorways in these countries.
France, Italy and Spain - tolls paid at booths. In France there are some free motorways, such as between Calais and Boulogne, but these are only where they want to keep the traffic of other roads, such as around cities or bits of very popular tourist routes.
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BaconEggAndBeans
9:49 Sun Aug 20
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joe royal 1:42 Sat Aug 19
Joe, just wanted to have a bit of a drive round while I was there. The stops for each day are Stuttgart, Trento, Misano (2 days), Lecco, Innsbruck, Kaiserslautern and the back to Rotterdam for the ferry.
Willtell, where you staying in Misano and have you got a general admission ticket or Grandstand?
Cheers for help
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Willtell
7:31 Sat Aug 19
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I'm going to San Remo MotoGP in early September with 3 mates on our bikes. We usually do two events a year and did the Austrian Moto GP last year.
We never had any vignettes and I have never bought one in Switzerland either but we keep off their motorways which is what the vignettes pay for.
Motorways in France are mostly paid for through toll booths where you take a ticket at the start and pay at the end. Not all m/ways are peages though but I don't know why. Mind you we don't have road tax in France.
The centres of some European cities (Paris inside the Periphique is one) where older vehicles are not permitted. It's to force electric vehicles on people to get rid of polluting cars and motorbikes which is the modern world for you...
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joe royal
1:42 Sat Aug 19
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Any reason you taking that route?
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joe royal
1:15 Sat Aug 19
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Sorry , Austria needs a sticker as well.
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joe royal
1:13 Sat Aug 19
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As far as I know....,
Holland , Germany and Austria are free if under 7.5 tonnes.
Italy has booths you just put a credit card in.
Switzerland you buy a sticker that lasts a year , no matter if you are there for a week you buy a years worth of road tax . And no refunds:
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BaconEggAndBeans
12:31 Sat Aug 19
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Thanks for your help, looks like Switzerland and Austria then, and the other countries just normal tolls.
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billywhitehorse
10:12 Fri Aug 18
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Austria has vignettes, Germany doesn't.
I have driven through Austria without one and nothing happened.
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Far Cough
10:11 Fri Aug 18
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Not by much
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ray winstone
10:11 Fri Aug 18
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The first time I drove through Italy on my way to Greece I was amazed at the state of their motorways, hitting a pot hole in the outside lane at 70mph was a tad unnerving then the cunts had the temerity to charge me €16 for a 500km trip, cheeky cunts!
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gph
10:08 Fri Aug 18
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Actually, he's dead.
Arnautovic was a bit livelier than that on Sunday.
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Far Cough
10:06 Fri Aug 18
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I bet it was Arnautovic?
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gph
10:05 Fri Aug 18
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I think German roads are generally without tolls for vehicles under 7.5t.
Or did you mean Switzerland and Austria?
I used know an Austrian who used moody vignettes in Switzerland. 10-1 they've tightened up, so be careful where you buy the vignette!
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Crassus
10:04 Fri Aug 18
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Bacon
Ok a car, well I unstood them to be like a pre-paid toll that you pick up as you cross the border, we did that a few years back when driving to Prague from the first fuel station
Joe or Len will doubtless be the lads to put you right
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BaconEggAndBeans
9:53 Fri Aug 18
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Looks a bit vague, looks like I have to buy them in petrol stations before I reach the border. I'm staying in Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern in Germany so not sure if I will need anything there.
Am I right in thinking out of the countries I'm going to that Germany and Austria are vignette countries and the others are more pay as you go tolls like the US?
I wonder what the translation of 'Please don't bum me' is in these countries
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gph
9:44 Fri Aug 18
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I broke the law in Germany by driving too old a car in an area where they were banned, but I don't think their software was up to interpreting UK registration plates.
I think such zones are only in cities, though.
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BaconEggAndBeans
9:40 Fri Aug 18
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In a car, It's a 335i so will be high emissions if that makes any difference
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