After the Secretariat of State for Transport, the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and the Energy defended in turn Saturday the rate increase SNCF announced Friday evening, citing the need to improve the quality of service to passengers.
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“This 2.6% increase is needed to improve the quality of service offered to travelers, as in 2014, only the VAT increase was reflected in the price of tickets,” recalls Ministry of Ségolène Royal in a statement.
An argument that has angered the Association of users of passenger railways (Avuç). “These are the everyday travelers, those who use the train to work who bear the brunt of this increase,” said the association to the announcement of the increase. According to her, the increase comes at a SNCF service quality is “back”, lamenting a “declining enrollment in the stations,” the “closed windows” or the “disappearance of the controllers on the trains” and “sideboards deletions.”
As prices of Prem’s tickets and discount cards remain unchanged
“The train will now be able to continue investments in maintenance, priority, and investment on equipment, information systems and customer relationships, “explains his side the Ministry of Energy.
The government insists the fact that this increase, which will come into force on 31 December, will not apply on all fares, “but only on the full price.” Call price (Prem’s), the discount cards and reservations with subscriptions Packages and students, students and apprentices therefore remain unchanged. “The train will be able to offer more discounts to more modest travelers, in return for limited financial effort required of the most affluent (more than one million additional discounted tickets will be published in 2015),” stressed on Friday evening the Secretary of State for Transport ..
The SNCF rates traditionally recorded an increase on 1 January. In 2014, however, only the VAT increase, from 7% to 10%, was reflected in the price of the tickets.
Marine Le Pen asks “cancellation” of the increase rates
President of the National Front Saturday asked “cancellation” of the rate increase from the train which “hides” in her “abandonment of public service.” According to Marine Le Pen, “this increase is just when the train leaves more clearly its public service mission to prepare for the opening to competition of rail transport in 2019 at the behest of the European Union.” “France must regain control of its public service rail and stop applying obediently European texts which degrade the quality of service and weigh down prices,” she said. It “and demand the freezing of European directives liberalization of the rail and the immediate cancellation of the price increase of 1 January, justified even less than in the first half of 2014, SNCF made a profit of 224 million euros “. “The purchasing power of F rench must be an imperative,” says the president of the far-right party
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