Now this was enjoyable!!! :D I really like when you comment with interesting facts about the roads and the area in which it is situated in the country you are in. You are doing such a fantastic thing for your subs, as some of us cannot travel.We eagerly watch your videos, to see the country that you are driving through. I truly appreciate all the hard work you put into editing, as taping is as easy as remembering to push the on/record button ;) ... Thank you for today's installment, and can't wait for the next :D ooh found the Febreeze.. lol ;)
7:45 Thats true. The French motorway system is a lot newer than Germany's and thus takes into account modern demands. Its also funded completely private mostly and thus you pay on average 10 € or so per 100 km in toll fees. The companies behind it are earning monopoly high profits as a result. Its up to your own to decide what you find best.
Based on my travels throughout the Northeastern US last year for the first time, I was shocked by how much more… “modern” many of the 1940s-pre interstate era turnpikes were compared to plentiful suburban expressways & freeways. Which withstood the test of time better before an expansion, reconfiguring of multiple interchanges, or even a top to bottom redesign/rebuild? The rural toll roads? Or a growing share of rural interstates, much less suburban freeways in general?
Kind of odd that Calais isn't on the signs even at the A5/A31 junction (the A5 at that point was originally the A26) and that Paris was signposted all the way back to Dijon (from where you would surely use the A6 to get to Paris).
A31-A5 is considered an alternate route to Paris. It has helped reduce congestion on A6 on mass travel days during the winter and summer. A6 used to be pretty bad but nowadays you can see it all green on Google Maps traffic during a 'Black Saturday' exodus. There is a toll plaza near the western end of A5 at Melun that is hugely oversized for its average traffic. It's designed for busy travel days.
De drie grote concessionairs in Frankrijk zijn Vinci, APRR en Sanef. Maar er zijn in totaal wel een stuk of 20 concessionairs, de meeste kleine hebben maar 1 tolweg in het beheer.
I like the French Autoroutes, BUT they don't build 3,75m wide lanes like we have in Germany. Also the middle section is very narrow. So in Fact they build a 6 lane Autoroute in a space of around 30 meters, where we build a solid Autobahn with 4 lanes with a standard planned 29,5 meter wide cross-section.
I guess this is for security reason because Autobahns have no speed limitation. In addition, in France we save space. Building a highway means destroying environnement, forests, or fields with agriculture. There is nothing good in building too wide roads.
