The president of Ile-de-France Mobilités, Valérie Pécresse, had announced that the Navigo pass, currently at 75 euros, could drop to 90 euros in 2023 to absorb the additional costs of health and energy crises.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
While Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) provides for a 20 % increase in prices in Ile-de-France public transport, the Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, assured, Tuesday, December 6, that “there will have [it] state support “to the regional institution in order to avoid an excessive increase in prices.
“I hope there is no significant increase, because I think it would not be sustainable in the period of inflation that we live,” said Beaune on RTL, to The day before the IDFM board of directors, which must vote the 2023 budget and therefore fix the prices for next year.
Valérie Pécresse, president of IDFM, had agitated the threat of an increase in the navigo pass to 100 euros, calling on the government to increase the contribution of companies to avoid this scenario. An increase which would be “socially unacceptable”, had written M
me in a letter to the administrators of IDFM, dated November 25, evoking “an unprecedented context of flight of the operating costs of Ile -de -France transport , linked to the energy crisis “. The president estimated at 950 million euros the additional costs of operating Ile -de -France transport in 2023 due to the foreseeable explosion of electricity prices.
Another track provides for an increase at 80.80 euros if Parliament votes an increase in the contribution of companies, via an amendment to the finance bill, but the government opposes it. The senators had also rejected a proposal to increase this contribution.
