Valérie Pécresse is very clear: it is out of the question for her to “replay the ping-pong game from the end of 2022” to complete the transport financing budget in Ile-de-France. As president of the region, she presides over the organizing authority for travel for Ile-de-France residents, Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM).
In 2022, the State had to disburse 200 million euros to limit the increase in the Navigo pass (still increased from 75.20 euros to 84.10 euros monthly) or that of bus tickets. This is not what IDFM was asking for, which would have preferred to increase the mobility payment, the tax that companies pay to the region to contribute to the financing of transport, which already represents half of IDFM’s resources.
The president of the region therefore organized, with the regional prefect, Marc Guillaume, a meeting on the financing of transport in the Ile-de-France, Monday, January 23, at the regional council, in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), in order to find a solution. During these rich debates, the game of ping-pong gradually turned into… mistigri. Each has proposed a solution that makes the other pay… without a simple and consensual resource emerging at the end of the day.
List of contributors
A single observation is unanimous: the public transport network in Ile-de-France will double by the end of the 2020s. One hundred and thirty-nine new stations or stations will be created as part of Greater Paris Express, or extensions of existing metro or RER lines. Three hundred and fifty kilometers of additional metro, tram, train or bus lines will irrigate the territory.
The authors of the reports on the financial situation of transport in the Ile-de-France region (General Inspectorate for the Environment and Sustainable Development, General Inspectorate of Finance, Court of Auditors) have successively explained the needs. And everyone recognizes that the imbalance in IDFM’s budget is more than one billion euros. The managing director of IDFM, Laurent Probst, estimates that between 2024 and 2030, the annual financing needs of the organization he heads will increase from 800 million euros to 2.4 billion euros. , or even 2.6 billion.
“No one can say that he did not know”, insisted Valérie Pécresse after this transparency exercise. Who should pay? The President of the region concluded the day with a list of contributors. Could pay the Société du Grand Paris, with permanent resources – an additional tax to the property tax in Ile-de-France, and above all a fee on offices in the most expensive neighborhoods in the region.
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