Tolls and Highways
Toll Roads Are Everywhere
Sometimes you pay, sometimes you take a ticket
Toll Roads Are Everywhere
Tolls are best paid with a credit card or apple pay. Avoid the lane with only the "T," that is toll tag. Any with the credit card symbol will work. I avoid the one with cart as there is always someone tossing and dropping cash in the basket like its 1970.
Credit Card Payment
Sometimes you pay, sometimes you take a ticket
Toll Roads Are Everywhere
When you pull up to the gate it is all people free. Use the credit card touch pad or Apple wallet. I have never had a card declined but I usually keep a spare card ready.
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Sometimes you pay, sometimes you take a ticket
Sometimes you pay, sometimes you take a ticket
Sometimes you pay, sometimes you take a ticket
When you come to a toll and you see this sign, you will not pay but take a ticket. Eventually when you get off the highway, you insert the ticket and its calculates the toll - then you pay.
Driving Advice
Do Not Text and Drive
Do Not Drink and Drive
It is just not done. French take driving seriously and people do not text and drive. That includes not looking at your phone for maps and instructions.
Do Not Drink and Drive
Do Not Drink and Drive
Goes without saying but even more so given you are a visitor
Google Maps or Waze etc!
Essential to getting around
Priorité à Droite (Priority of Right)
Priorité à Droite (Priority of Right)
This the main rule of French driving. Roads are narrow and knowing who has the priority is essential. I recommend you read:
Crosswalks - The Respect Them
Priorité à Droite (Priority of Right)
Crosswalks - The Respect Them
Seriously, drive enough in the US cities and we just ignore cross walks. Not in France. People will just walk out under the assumption people will stop - as it should be. See a cross walk, look for pedestrians even getting close.
French Rest Stops Are Awesome
Priorité à Droite (Priority of Right)
Crosswalks - The Respect Them
I have raved about rest stops in France since 1994 and for a reason.