A tram from the TCL network in Lyon.

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Caroline Girardon / 20 Minutes

  • Bruno Bernard announced this Wednesday in Lyon several measures to help students vulnerable by the crisis linked to Covid-19 and reduce their transport budget.

  • The most insecure will be able to benefit from a reimbursement for the months of January and February on their annual subscription.

  • New lower prices will apply from the start of September.

A welcome boost long awaited by students.

This Tuesday, the environmental president of Sytral announced several aid to support young people vulnerable by the health and economic crises linked to Covid-19.

On the occasion of a visit to the Agoraé solidarity grocery store on the Doua campus in Villeurbanne, Bruno Bernard, also president of the Métropole de Lyon, detailed the measures to come very soon and then at the start of September to reduce the budget student transport.

A decision which will be presented and submitted to the vote of the next Sytral union council.

To help the most precarious young people, reimbursement of TCL season tickets for January and February will be possible for some students.

To benefit from it, young people must have an annual subscription, be scholarship holders or have benefited in recent months from emergency financial assistance from the CROUS.

Also on request from the TCL, each student who has taken out a year-round subscription will be able to stop it freely and benefit from a reimbursement of the remaining months already paid, from March 1.

Falling subscriptions at the start of the school year

Beyond this urgent help, intended, according to Bruno Bernard, to "support the current crisis", the union committee of Sytral will have to decide at the next meeting on March 22 on a reduction in TCL prices for students.

From September, scholarship students will be able to benefit from a monthly fee of 10 euros.

"We still have to discuss the scope to integrate the most precarious students who do not have access to scholarships," Bruno Bernard said on Wednesday.

For all others, the youth subscription (18-25 years old) will drop from 32.5 euros currently to 25 euros per month.

Following these announcements, the student union Gaélis, very mobilized since the beginning of the crisis, welcomed.

"We welcome this strong measure from Sytral which comes to help thousands of students in a substantial way, as well as the prospect of a real reduction in the cost of transport in Lyon for young people, requested for ten years", indicated in a press release. the syndicate.

"No student should be left behind, and we must continue to work so that each and everyone can continue their training with dignity," he continued, adding that he would remain vigilant in the implementation of these measures.

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