Re: Driving from Salzburg to Zurich


tim (in sweden) wrote:
"Tim C." <tim.challenger@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Following up to "tim \(in sweden\)" <tim_in_sweden2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> :


The motorway route from there takes you past Bregenz. You could
come off the motorway and idle through the town at 20kmph but
do you really want to do that to save (guessing) 5 Euro.

?7.60 for a 10-day vignette.

I don't understand the shock!horror! "Avoid Austria, you have to pay for a
sticker!" But they're quite happy to accept the tolls on the French and
Italian motorways.

I think there's the psychological issue of paying the same fee
for a pass for 20km, that you could (reasonably) use for 400.

This is especially true of the swiss pass where there isn't (or at
least wasn't) a 14 day/1 month version.

Well, for me it is an issue of gouging tourists to pay for something
the local population should. At least on a toll road everyone pays the
same amount for each use. If you're forced to have a year long sticker
and use it for less than a day, you were gouged as the local people can
use it for 365 days a year. It's also similar to gouging people
renting cars with expensive surcharges at an airport because local
people don't rent cars there, and it's just a way to get money for the
city without taxing their citizens. The rental car company and
gasoline taxes have already paid any road use fees.

George

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