JNugent
Where did I claim that the Swiss charge a per-kilometre fee for driving on private land?
Rubbish - you can drive your foreign-registered vehicle from one end of Switzerland to the other without buying a vignette, so long as you don't venture onto the toll roads, which are the roads shown in red on the Swiss government's handy "Toll Roads" map :-
All this is clearly explained on numerous web sites, including :-
Whoever told you you can't take your vehicle into Switzerland without a vignette was having a laugh.
The vignette is a charge for driving on specific roads, it is NOT a general tax for using the Swiss road network.
Fuel Tax 1177Not so, I'm afraid. The Federal Republic has operated a continuous improvement programme for many decades. Not many...
Given this rather fundamental error, the rest of JNugent's description of the Swiss system is clearly snip-fodder
No - your vehicle can be driven on the roads shown on the Swiss government's "toll roads" map.
I am just as enbreastled as you are to drive my vignette-free car on all the other Swiss roads.
Fuel Tax 1176Read further. It isn't collected by pbutting beacons of any sort, or for travelling on any particular road. The present tense...
So if I pay an annual toll (as you can do on some UK toll roads), by your definition I am not actually paying a toll? Pull the other one.
I stress that the above is YOUR definition. Not a single dictionary or encyclopedia in existence would agree with it.
