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"I voted in favour of the El Khadraoui report on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures.
It is important to give the Member States the opportunity to apply ‘smarter’ payments for the road haulage sector to cover the external costs and thus encourage more sustainable behaviour.
Whilst air and noise pollution must be taken into account, the same is not true of congestion, which is caused not only by road haulage. Such a charge would be discriminatory, since private cars are also responsible for congestion.
Furthermore, this sector is paying the consequences of the economic crisis through the price of oil and the costs of delivering goods. SMEs in the road transport sector will not be able to bear these additional costs in the midst of this economic crisis.
More should be done to adapt road infrastructure to the increase in traffic but, above all, a commitment should be made to sustainable transport, with priority given to low carbon-emitting modes of transport.
As an elected representative of the Rhône-Alpes region, I can testify to the failure of many road sectors in the Rhône Valley to adapt."@en1
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