New trains, a brand new station, and perhaps even the inauguration of a cable car: Le Figaro takes stock of the changes to expect in public transport in Île-de-France.
Will 2025 be as prolific as the previous one in public transport in the Ile-de-France region? If, in 2024, the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the region allowed many projects to quickly see the light of day, others should in turn stand out in the coming months. First and foremost the implementation of new tariffs, desired as a tariff simplification, but also the arrival of new rolling stock planned as part of the modernization of the network as well as the opening of new stations. On the other hand, we will have to wait a few more years before being able to use the first lines of the Grand Paris Express, work on which is still slightly behind schedule.
New prices for the new year
This is the big change of the year 2025: the “ticketing revolution” imagined by the organizing authority for public transport in the Ile-de-France Mobilités. From January 1, 2025, the ticket to take the metro, RER or Transilien is at the single price of 2.50 euros “valid on all lines of the rail network (excluding Orlyval) as well as lines T11, T12 and T13”while the ticket to take the bus or tram “valid on all tram lines, buses (excluding Orlybus and Roissybus), coaches, Noctilien, long-distance buses, and on-demand transport” is sold at 2 euros. “A measure that is both ecological and social, which will help fight against the social and territorial divides in the region”thus justified the president of the region and of Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) Valérie Pécresse, who thus wishes to put an end to the “incomprehensible price scales, with 50,000 different prices, totally unfair”.
Occasional travelers will therefore not have “only two transport tickets left for their travel”welcomes IDFM, which specifies that “these two titles have no distance limit, regardless of the departure or arrival station (as long as it is in Île-de-France) and the line taken”. In addition, they allow “metro-train-RER connections up to 2 hours after the first validation, and up to 1h30 on the bus or tram networks (excluding interruptions and round trips for the latter)”. And to use these tickets, it will be possible to load them on a Navigo Easy pass, on a smartphone or on a connected watch. Note that IDFM strongly encourages occasional residents of the Ile-de-France region to purchase a Liberté+ subscription, which is more economical. “With up to 20% off each way”note IDFM.
For subscribers, prices increase on January 1, with a Navigo pass at 88.80 euros per month, or 976.80 euros per year. The Navigo senior pass will also cost more per year, 532.80 euros, just like the Imagine R school and student pass, sold at 384.30 euros. Finally, the Imagine R junior pass reaches 16.80 euros.
New trains in the metro and RER
In 2025, IDFM expects the arrival of 130 new rolling stock. So many new trains, supposed to improve user comfort and train regularity. Among them, the RER NG (“New Generation”) should gradually arrive on the RER D and E, in addition to Regio 2N trains. “The deployment of the RER NG will also continue on the RER E in 2025 to ensure 100% service to Nanterre, then Mantes-la-Jolie in 2027”underlines IDFM.
On line 10the new MF19 trainsets are expected at the end of 2025. Ultimately, all metro lines will be equipped with this new rolling stock. According to RATP, these are the trains of lines 3, 3 bis, 7, 7 bis, 8, 10, 12 and 13 “will be gradually replaced by the MF19 between 2025 and 2035”.
Same thing for the T1 tram of which all the old trainsets will be replaced by new ones, the TW20s, by August. Furthermore, the bus fleet continues its renewal, with the delivery to the RATP of the 1000th clean electric bus. By the end of 2025, all buses will run on HVO plant-based fuel, electric or biomethane.
New infrastructure
After the opening of the extension of line 14 to the north and south, to Orly airport, it is the turn of the new Villejuif Gustave Roussy station to soon open to the public within a few weeks. Highly anticipated, it will complete the longest line in the metro network, which will ultimately be connected to line 15 south.
Another expected novelty: the inauguration of the Cable 1the very first cable car in Île-de-France, which must be delivered in the second half of 2025 between Créteil Pointe du Lac and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. A “innovative mode of transport” according to IDFM which should allow “more than 10,000 travelers per day use metro line 8” more easily and quickly.
Finally, IDFM plans this year to inaugurate the new infrastructures of the Tzen 4high level of service bus between Viry-Châtillon and Corbeil-Essonnes. A service “highly awaited by local residents as a replacement for line 402 currently in service”boasts IDFM, which reminds us that these “will allow the current line to run faster and have its own tracks”.
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Strengthening the transport offer
“2025 will also mark the arrival of a robust and reinforced transport offer for users”finally welcomes Île-de-France Mobilités, which promises the return to 100% of the pre-covid offer on the RER and trains, “thanks to a major recruitment plan for drivers, maintainers and returns of trains and rolling stock on numerous lines operated by Transilien SNCF Voyageurs”. Knowing that the return to normal is already almost effective on the RATP network.
On the RER D, a new direct service between the center of Paris (Gare du Nord, Châtelet, Gare de Lyon) with Malesherbes (Centre-Val de Loire) has been set up. Several daily round trips, via Juvisy, will be offered “to better serve Essonne”raises IDFM. Be careful though, since this destination is located outside the Île-de-France region, completely different pricing applies.
Finally, the RER E continues to gain momentum. The extension of the line to the west – called the Éole project – is now running at full speed, on the section between Haussmann-Saint-Lazare station and Nanterre-la-Folie. Inaugurated last May, it previously only operated during off-peak hours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends, with only one train every 15 minutes. The line now also operates during peak hours with a train every 4 minutes.
