The promise of free public transport during the Olympics is definitively dead and buried underground. €4 for a metro ticket, €6 for an RER ticket, €16 for a day pass, and it’s now the bus sentence which has just fallen. Monday May 6, Île-de-France Mobilités announced the significant increase in the price of bus ticketsusually raised to €2.50doubled at €5 this summer. News that will not help Parisians’ aversion to the 2024 Olympics.
Unorthodox modalities
To allow good Samaritans to buy their ticket, IDF Mobilités has not chosen the most logical route. Rather than a direct price increase, it will be necessary to buy and validate two tickets per journey. A confusing system that will hit the wallets of touristsand risk ofindirectly handicap people in the Ile-de-France regiondespite information campaigns which indicate that the increases will not affect them.
In fact, Navigo subscriptions will not increase, but it will be impossible to protect yourself from the increase by purchasing tickets in advance at the non-Olympic pricesince the number of tickets per journey will changebut not its price. Enough to penalize the residents the most precarious of the metropolis, particularly in the popular neighborhoods where the bus is often the only means of transport available.
Drivers will have to tear up every other ticket: info or misinformation?
When this increase was announced, a rumor circulated on social networkslaunched in particular by theTransport Users Association on their X account: “ For management reasons, the RATP provides that the driver will give two tickets but will tear one “, we can read. An unfriendly and useless process which raises questions, but is indeed a poison according to IDF Mobilités, interviewed by TF1Info. “ There will be two tickets which correspond to twice the unit ticket. Both will need to be validated “, but none will be tornindicates the union.
