A “Ticketing Revolution”: a single ticket for 2.50 euros will allow travel in Paris and the whole of the Île-de-France region

Tuesday 17th September 2024 08:23 PM

From January 2025, a single fare of 2.50 euros will apply to metro, RER and train tickets, regardless of destination or distance travelled.

The big upheaval after the Paris Olympics. According to information from Le Parisien and a statement from “Plus de train”, an association of users of the RER and Transilien lines, Île-de-France Mobilités will set up a single ticket at 2.50 euros on the entire Ile-de-France rail network. This offer should arrive in January 2025. A “ticketing revolution” according to Valérie Pécresse.

Concretely, this new ticket will allow you to travel on the RATP and SNCF networks, i.e. the metro, RER and Transiliens, at the same price for a single ticket. So goodbye to zones and fines when you go from Paris to Versailles.

Let us note, however, that Île-de-France Mobilités is giving with one hand and taking away with the other, since it is leading to an increase in the price of the classic metro ticket, which will go from 2.15 to 2.50 euros, an increase of 35 cents. Let us recall that the ticket had already undergone an increase of 5 cents on January 1, 2024.

Many feared an increase in metro prices after the Paris 2024 Olympics. // Source: Alfred Tertrais for Numerama

There will also be no more 20% discount when you buy 10 tickets on an Easy pass or on a smartphone. The prices of airport shuttles will also align: the Roissy bus, the Orly bus, the RER to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and the metro 14 to Orly will all cost 13 euros for a one-way trip. Finally, a two-euro ticket will allow you to travel by tram and bus.

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Parisians encouraged to use the Liberté + pass for their journeys

The Liberté + pass will undergo the biggest changes. This pass, whose price changes according to the number of journeys, will see its price increase, with a ticket for rail transport going from 1.73 euros to 1.99 euros. It will continue to be more advantageous for bus and tram users, where the ticket for surface transport will cost 1.60 euros. Its use also extends to the entire network in Île-de-France.

Little information is circulating about the other “traditional” packages. They could increase by a maximum of +1% depending on inflation, Valérie Pécresse indicated at a meeting, according to the RER and Transilien users’ association “Plus de train”. The latter nevertheless welcomes these changes which allow Paris to remain ” competitive with cities of similar size “.