The owner of Ile-de-France Mobilités must find 950 million euros to complete its 2023 budget and regret that “the State [does not give it money”. “I find it completely unfair and socially unbearable that travelers only finance the enormous needs of 2023” she told the “Parisian”.
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In response to the numerous arrests which she has been the subject of in recent weeks on social networks, concerning the degradation of the public transport offer in Ile-de-France, photos of crowds on the quays Support, Valérie Pécresse asked the RATP to “return to 100 % of the pre-Covid offer” in Parisian transport.
In a Interview with Parisian , published Sunday, November 6, the owner of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) accuses the Régie de Public Transport of having “underestimated the problems it encounters on the metro”. “In particular on lines 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 13, the most degraded, with regularity rates below 91 %,” she said.
The President of the Ile-de-France region deplores the degradation of the bond of trust with the RATP which has been struggling since the start of the school year to ensure its bus offer with 25 % of services not done in Paris and in a small crown and “had assured that there would be no impact on the metro and “that everything was fine” “. “It was false”, she indignant, describing a deterioration of the service “in unacceptable proportions”.
It requires 100 % return of the pre -Covid offer on the metro – against 98 % on average on the whole network, with disparities according to the lines – because the Ile -de -France are back in the Transport but also “because of the lack of bus which leads to a postponement on the metro, work in Paris which makes you no longer drive, the cost of energy …”.
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Jean Castex, who will be auditioned this week by the National Assembly then the Senate for his expected appointment, “will have to roll up his sleeves” to “restore the quality of service that has clearly deteriorated since the start of the school year “, warned Valérie Pécresse, calling on the former Prime Minister to weigh on all his political weight with the government to obtain financing measures.
“With Covid debt, inflation, the costs of the double energy and the new financing needs linked to the new lines like those of the Grand Paris Express (…) We are facing a wall”, she said. IDFM must find 950 million euros to complete its 2023 budget and “the State does not give me money”.
The regional president, which has asked the government to increase the mobility payment paid by companies or lower VAT on transport to 5.5 %, has not yet been won. “I find it completely unfair and socially unbearable that travelers only finance the enormous needs of 2023,” regretted Valérie Pécresse, waving the threat of a navigo pass at 100 euros. “We can avoid it if the state finally responds to us, authorizes an increase in mobility payment or gives us the tax revenue promised in 2020; in short, [if] stops walking,” she insisted.