Get the rail sector back on track. This is what the government recently appointed by Jean Castex intends to do. According to the new Minister for the Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, the executive is preparing a "great recovery plan for the railway" and "all those who use public transport" to help the sector cope with the losses linked to the health crisis .
"The State will not drop all those who make public transport, which is also the basis of the ecological transition, so yes we will support them, yes we will make a big recovery plan for the railway, yes we will help all those who take public transport and we will make sure that they do not have to pay the consequences "of the crisis, said the minister on Franceinfo.
Maintain offers at affordable prices
The Minister for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari "is working on it", according to her. The confinement for almost two months and the distancing measures caused the traffic and therefore the revenues of the public transport operators to plummet. The Covid-19 crisis should therefore cost SNCF almost 4 billion euros in turnover, according to company CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou, who called on the state for help .
Several ministers have indicated in recent weeks that the railway company will be supported by the state. "Obviously we want the SNCF to be able to continue to be able to offer train offers at affordable prices for all and that we continue the modernization of the network which is essential", said mid-June Elisabeth Borne, who preceded Ms. Pompili to the Ecological Transition.
A hole of 2.6 billion euros
The RATP group expects to lose 380 million euros in turnover in 2020 due to the health crisis and its consequences. Wednesday, Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) decided to no longer pay the RATP and the SNCF which operate trains, metros, trams and buses in the region until the State compensates for the loss of revenue due to the coronavirus crisis. At the risk of weakening businesses a little more.
IDFM estimates the hole in its finances at 2.6 billion euros, out of a total of around 4 billion for all the local authorities that organize public transport in France. The Ile-de-France authority took the opportunity to remind Wednesday that it had ordered several billion rolling stock from the rail manufacturers Alstom and Bombardier.
Rail freight operators are also pushing for a recovery plan aimed at doubling the share of rail in freight transport by 2030 and call on the State to massively support the sector in the name of the climate emergency. The State has set up several support plans for sectors particularly affected by the consequences of the epidemic: 18 billion euros for the tourism sector, one of the most affected by containment, 15 billion euros for support to aeronautics or even the 8 billion from the automotive plan.
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