Free highways, however surreal or impossible it may seem, already exist but not in Italy. All roads in our country are toll-free, luckily it doesn’t work like that in the rest of Europe.
Those used to traveling by car, whether for work or simply for holidays, already know that in many European countries you travel for free, or at most in some particular stretches, you pay very low prices compared to Italy.
All those who do not travel, on the other hand, may want to know that in some countries the use of the motorway is totally free for example in Germany.
Because Europe has said no to the solution proposed by the various states
Governments in the past have made several attempts to change things, perhaps by putting the toll on foreign motorists. However, Europe has seen fit to stop the project defining it exclusively as discriminatory and not very useful. On the motorways of Belgium and Holland, you travel for free, same thing in Denmark, Finland, Sweden or Iceland where there is no real motorway network.
The highway is also free in Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, in Georgia, Armenia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Cyprus except in some connections where bridges and therefore particularly expensive structures have been built, one is forced to pay.
Not all highways are free, that’s where you pay
So it can be said that not all highways are totally free and that you can go everywhere without paying. Some drivers are lucky that run only on some highways. In Austria, for example, you can buy vignettes that allow you to travel for 10 days at a fixed price or if you don’t travel a lot, you can choose to use them for two months or even for a year.
Then there is Switzerland where you can buy it the ticket to travel 14 months for € 39. The same method is used in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. As for the payment of motorways, however, it is not only in Italy that you pay, it also works in Poland, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Greece, Croatia, Belarus, Ireland, Portugal, China, in Spain, France, Norway. Finally, we cannot fail to mention the United Kingdom where a hybrid solution has been adopted, that is, you do not pay the toll, but you pay some sections or four, where the construction and maintenance works have cost a lot and therefore you need to earn. more money.
