Managing Director of SNCF Gares & Connexions, Marlène Dolveck announced Monday on Europe 1 that station toilets will be free from next year, for people with a train ticket.

The official also indicated that solar panels would soon be installed on the roofs of stations.

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This is a novelty that should delight all those who have had to spend to go to the toilet at the station before taking a train.

And those who would have needed it, but had no change.

From next year, train ticket holders will be able to use the station toilets for free, as announced by the director of SNCF Gares & Connexions on Europe 1, Monday at noon.

"It will be from 2022, the time to have designed all the systems that make it possible to do it," said Marlène Dolveck on the set of

La France bouge

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Difference between residents and users

"Maintaining toilets in a station is not easy," continues the manager of this subsidiary of the railway group.

"We went through providers, 2theloo, who charge one euro for each passage. In fact, those who will use the toilets and who are residents will pay one euro. But when you have a train ticket, it will be free for you. "

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This free service is one of the new functions that SNCF wants to offer to its users, with the emphasis placed on safety.

"Safety and security are extremely important to me and we do not compromise on these subjects," insists the leader.

"During this Covid-19 period, we had an acceleration of the facts of safety and security. It could be, for example, the installation of a lot of fake taxis in our stations. I invite everyone to be very careful and to only take taxis which are approved taxis. "

1.1 million solar panels

The group is also counting on the ecological transformation of its stations in the coming years. "SNCF Gares & Connexion is also positioned as the specialist in green stations with strategic ambitions around intermodality and cycling, with 70,000 additional bicycle parking spaces", assures Marlène Dolveck, according to whom "1.1 million photovoltaic panels will be installed in our stations by 2030 ". This will lead, according to the leader, to the total self-consumption of these infrastructures.