The investment effort in the railway should reach in the coming years the 100 billion euros demanded by the CEO of the SNCF Jean-Pierre Farandou, estimated Tuesday the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune, for whom “the priority of priorities” goes to the network and daily trains.
The message of Jean-Pierre Farandou, the president of the SNCF, which I share (…), it is to reinvest a lot in the railway and in particular in the network, declared Mr. Beaune on France Inter. We do it, he added, saying to be wary of a display that can be a little marketing.
I really want that if we free up budgetary resources – and we will free up some -, we put them as a priority on these work transport, most often daily, and on the network, which is aging, hammered the minister Monday.
Mr. Farandou proposed a program to double the share of rail, which he estimates around 100 billion euros over fifteen years.
When we (will) add up in the coming decade in everyday trains, in Greater Paris trains, in high-speed lines, in the renovation of small lines, in the network, we will frankly, very probably, be this level of investment, assured the minister.
For peri-urban areas, Mr. Beaune is betting on the development of metropolitan RERs such as Strasbourg, Marseille and Lyon.
It also intends to announce measures on return to encourage carpooling.
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The Minister also justified the rebates on the price of fuel, even if they are not ecological because according to him many French people have no choice and no alternative on many journeys.
In the short term, we cannot get the French because there is a crisis in purchasing power, we assume it, he said.
As for the plane, call to green, it will remain an important mode of transport, for long distances in particular, according to him.
We have to come back to the true ecological and social price of this mode of transport, noted Mr. Beaune, pointing to the drives we have seen in recent years from low-cost companies, often foreign ones, which do not have not integrated the ecological cost or have been able to engage in social dumping.