Help the renovation of the network, network defense Intercités, possible assumption of debt: The government on Wednesday unveiled the extent of its support for the SNCF, and the latter is in the millions of euros. This boost was already planned but the mobilization of railwaymen has probably accelerated: the government recently forced the management of the SNCF to accept a more favorable railway agreement, and thus more expensive for the company. The government has decided to compensate for this shortfall in the short term.
Details of ads. Manuel Valls including promised additional € 100 million to renovate the network 2017, bringing the state support to 500 million by 2020. the government has also promised a grant of EUR 90 million for rail freight for the year 2016. the State will assume also “economic equilibrium” of Intercity lines, heavily in deficit, he said.
to a debt reduction? the Prime Minister referred to another folder, even heavier: debt SNCF and especially the SNCF network, the owner and the infrastructure manager. Manuel Valls has indeed evoked a possible resumption of the debt but said that the government will decide in August.
I must say that the train is in debt to the tune of 44 billion euros, of which three-quarters are the responsibility of SNCF network. Now the state is no stranger to this debt: it is the sole owner of the company and, as in the nuclear sector, it greatly affects the openings of lines and their service. Moreover, he refused to settle this matter in 1997, when he separated the SNCF into two entities and sent most of the debt of the SNCF to RFF, which has since become SNCF network. The debt of the SNCF is in part also of the state. Moreover, Germany has paid 35 billion of debt from Deutsche Bahn when the German counterpart of the SNCF has also been split into two.
The threatened Intercity network. Part of the SNCF network exists only thanks to state subsidies, which funds some lines to offer an alternative to road transport and promote mobility. This is particularly the case of the Intercity network, whose official name is “balance gears of the territory (TET)” and includes 30 lines: 22 day lines and night lines 8
Except. Intercity network that seduces less. His attendance has declined by 20% since 2011, and lost more money to the State: the deficit is expected to exceed 400 million euros in 2016. “Every ticket sold requires more public subsidy of 100 euros on average” summed up the end of February the Secretary of State for Transport Alain Vidal. If the Intercity network will not escape a reorganization, the state has promised financial support.
However, the strike continues Despite these goodies, the strike seems set to continue. If the railwaymen have been successful for their business agreement, some still dispute the branch agreement and especially the Labour law. The strike has been extended to Thursday by general meetings of railway workers in many areas, according to an AFP count: Ile-de-France, Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Auvergne region Lyon (Loire, Rhône, Drôme, Ardèche) and Marseille and the area Chambéry (Savoie, Haute Savoie, Isère, Ain) and the cities of Tours and Dunkirk.
the balance of power is still changing: if South Rail has always opposed the proposed agreements, the CGT announced Tuesday that it would take “the necessary time” to analyze the documents. And since Tuesday, the union confederation no longer give instructions to vote, leaving the general assemblies of strikers with the task of “determining the consequences” of the movement.
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