We recently learned that the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune would like to limit price inflation on transport and mainly on train tickets. He asked the SNCF company that the most modest users be protected against this price increase.
As the costs of living in France continue to rise, an essential subject is coming back to the fore thanks to the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune, guest of the Grand Jury on RTL : inflation which should affect the transport sector and more particularly the train. It was in mid-September that the CEO of SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou, had already spoken about this possible increase in the price of train tickets in 2023.
While the total charges are increasing and mainly that of electricity, the company has also forecast an increase in its electricity consumption of more than 1.6 billion euros in 2023. If this increase was also passed on on train tickets, prices would increase by more than 10%, the CEO of the SNCF group estimated at the time. What he had immediately taken up by assuring before the Senate: “Rest assured, we will not pass on 100% of the costs to customers”. But then is this price increase inevitable? Should we expect an increase in train ticket prices by 2023?
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A shield to protect the most modest households
Guest at the microphone of Grand Jurythe Minister of Transport Clément Beaune affirms that there will indeed be an increase in the cost of transport by the beginning of 2023. But this would indeed be limited to protect the most modest households, it should not be higher than inflation as evidenced by the Minister during his speech: “I asked the SNCF to work on ticket prices on a tariff shield and that the increase in tickets be lower than inflation”. The purpose of this measure would be to reduce this increase already forecast for the coming year.
Transport Minister Clément Beaune added that this decision was part of a desire to protect a large part of the population as “those who need the train every day, the most modest, young people who use the OuiGo”. Hoping that this agreement will be quickly put in place before the arrival of the new year.