During the metropolitan council on Monday June 3, 2024, the updated rates of the network of transport The Met’ were put to the vote. THE price of the single ticket remains the samebut as of Monday July 1, 2024, the subscription prices will see a further increase with at most one increase of 0.75% per share”.
The price of tickets and subscriptions reserved for precarious populations remain unchanged.
The measure must make it possible to identify €70,000 in additional revenue per yeara figure to put into perspective with the ticketing revenue of 15.08 million eurosand an overall budget for public transport of 68.33 million euros.
There is further bad news for users. It will no longer be possible to purchase a “2 on-board breakdown assistance” ticket.. A removal justified by the difficulty drivers experience in giving change on this type of ticket, which causes the length of stops where they are requested.
A price development that divides
In 2023, the elected representatives of the metropolis had already voted for an increase capped at 9.8% in the prices of the Le Met’ network, an increase already justified by inflation, as mentioned in our article to consult here which took place after an initial increase voted in 2021. This new increase is smaller and partial, but the measure does not pass through the ranks of environmentalists and the left.
We think that we could have done without this increase, the 3rd since the start of your mandate of François GROSDIDIER while at the same time we see stability for car parking.
These €70,000, this twig on the scale of our budget, it is in the pockets of our most ecologically conscientious fellow citizens that you will seek it.
denounces Jérémy ROQUES, metropolitan councilor (left)
On this point, the president of the Eurometropolis, François GROSDIDIER, defended himself by evoking a “maintenance at the constant euro” of subscriptions and indicating that social pricing will even become “more advantageous by maintaining it at its level” in view of inflation. An argument which aims to “explain thatby not increasing the other prices, this amounts to lowering them “.
Free public transport to illuminate the difference in vision
Jérémy ROQUES took advantage of his speech to recall the proposal by his group regarding the implementation of free public transport. According to the elected environmentalist, the transport budget is currently profitable to the tune of 11 million euros, not far from the 15 million euros in ticketing revenue.
To which François GROSDIDIER replied that he preferred, just like Dominique GROS whom he cited and who would therefore have declared it in his time, that he preferred “to have these 15 million euros to invest“.
