“Those who use the train a lot and whose income is modest” should not suffer any increase in the ticket, also pleaded Olivier Véran, Wednesday.
After Clément Beaune asked the SNCF on Sunday to “work out a fare shield on the train“, Olivier Véran gave some details this Wednesday on the form of the future device. “The government asks the SNCF to set up a tariff shield of two kinds“, indicated the spokesperson for the executive on Franceinfo, according to the profile of the travelers.
“For those who use the train a lot and whose income is modest, that they have no increase, that there is no inflation of the price of the train ticket. And for all train consumers, that train tickets increase in less significant proportions than inflation, at least than the inflation observed by the SNCF on its transport costs“, detailed the former Minister of Health.
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So less than 10%, according to the words of the CEO of the public railway company Jean-Pierre Farandou. He recently stated that soaring energy prices should in theory lead the company to “increase TGV tickets by 10%“. Asked about the precise extent of the “tariff shield“, Olivier Véran was content to say that it was “being discussed“, while claiming that he was “out of the question that train tickets increase by 8, 9 or 10%“.
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Work in progress at the SNCF
His colleague from Transports Clément Beaune wanted to be more ambitious on Sunday on the set of “ RTL-LCI-Le Figaro Grand Jury”, saying that he hoped that “the rise in banknotes is lower than inflationrecorded in France (6.2% in October over one year, according to INSEE). He had also expressed his desire that “those who need the train on a daily basis, the most modest, young people who use the Ouigo for example, are protected“.
Contacted by Le Figaro after the words of the Minister in charge of Transport, the SNCF said hard work on this “tariff shield“Following the government injunction. For the railway company, the idea would be to modulate the price increases according to the profile of the traveler, the day of the week and the lines. The increase would be very low for a student taking a Ouigo for example, while the price of tickets for business travelers would be much higher.