Monday, June 27, 2016

Navigo: State-Region agreement on a rate increase – Liberation

The State and the Ile-de-France on Monday signed a protocol actant “additional resources” to ensure “sustainable funding of the Paris transport system”, including an increase in the price of the Passe Navigo, the amount and the timing is not specified.

“the action protocol that the additional resources needed to ensure sustainable funding of the Paris transport system will be shared between users of public transport, via the tariff lever, users the Ile routes via regional modulation TICPE (domestic consumption tax on energy products, ie), and finally employers with more than 11 employees via an increase in the Transport tax, “said Matignon and the Region as a release.

the President of the Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse (Republicans) made financing Passe Navigo her pet, regularly denouncing a measure taken by the former Socialist majority just before regional elections, which had not been funded and led, she said, a hole of 300 million euros per year in the Union crates transport in Ile-de-France, which she chairs.

She had obtained in February the commitment of Prime Minister to find a sustainable funding to keep going, but last week, worried to see nothing coming just as arbitrage for the draft finance Act 2017 she had threatened to raise the single rate of 80 or 85 euros (70 euros now against), an increase that was nicknamed “Valls tax.”

“the establishment of the Passe Navigo single fare is a step forward for Ile users, “stated Matignon and the region, ensuring that they wished to” preserve, while ensuring a sustainable settlement of the financial needs of transport in Ile-de-France. “

AFP

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