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Tax foreign motorists, solution summer:
Each summer, vacation departures saturate the Swiss roads, especially in the Gothard. Moreover, At the origin of traffic jams: Swiss vehicles, but also foreign, French or German in particular. However, To remedy this, a large alliance of parties offers a controversial measure: to charge motorists passing.
Drivers who cross Switzerland without stopping there could soon have to pay a tax. Similarly, A motion in this sense was filed at the end of June. Consequently, supported by 90 parliamentarians from the five largest parties in the country.
This tax would be modular. Nevertheless, with higher prices during periods of strong crowds, such as summer weekends or at Easter, especially in Gothard.
The goal, according to UDC Ticino’s national councilor Paolo Pamini, is to avoid traffic jams. Furthermore, “If we moved part of this traffic to other days. However, when there is no queue, or at night, it would tax foreign motorists, solution summer be better than the current state. However, And if people around Switzerland. especially by the Brenner pass, we could relieve the alpine arch,” he pleaded on Thursday at the microphone of the RTS morning.
It is still too early, according to him, to articulate an amount. “At the worst moments, it could cost hundreds of francs, we don’t know,” he says. “In reality. if the tax is effective, we would have less line during the most critical moments, because people would prefer to cross Switzerland at night or another day. And those who would like to cross it anyway would not need to spend 5. 6 hours of tail in the Alps.”
>> Listen to the full interview with Paolo Pamini. in the morning:
Other overly restrictive alternatives – Tax foreign motorists, solution summer
The Col du Brenner. between Austria and Italy, is one of the non -Swiss ways to cross the Alps. But according to mobility engineer Sylvain Guillaume-Gentil, not sure that vacationers will choose this option only to avoid a tax.
“Unfortunately, the Gothard is a little victim of his situation. That is to say that there are not really alternatives outside Switzerland. If you make a trip between Frankfurt in Germany. Genoa in Italy, for example, going through the Brenner, it is 250 more kilometers, which represents three hours additional road, if everything is fine. The passage through Switzerland is therefore extremely interesting and difficult to replace.”
Not to mention that people would already have the opportunity to take the road at times when traffic is not. overloaded. “Now, they don’t do it,” he points out.
The proposal will still have tax foreign motorists, solution summer to take the stage of the Parliament to go further.
>> Listen to the full interview with Sylvain Guillaume-Gentil in the morning:
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