The decision has yet to be validated by the elected representatives of the regional council in October.
But for the executive of Paca, and its president Renaud Muselier, the choice has been made: the SNCF will no longer operate the TER alone in the extreme South-East.
On the Nice-Marseille line, ie 10% of the local supply, the Transdev group should be in the driver's seat.
On this first of the two lots which were offered as part of an opening to competition, the first in France for a market estimated in total at 2.4 billion euros, three candidates were in the running.
And among the offers of "SNCF, Transdev and Thello", it is that of Transdev which "will be put to the vote of elected officials next October", announced the region on Tuesday.
Traffic doubled from 2025 for "an equivalent price"
With quantified objectives.
“Thanks to this offer, from 2025, traffic will be doubled for an equivalent price!
We will go from 7 daily round trips to 14 daily round trips ", specifies the community.
For the second batch, that of the “Azur” lines, grouping the “Les Arcs / Draguignan-Vintimille”, “Nice-Tende” and “Cannes-Grasse” axes (ie 23% of the regional offer) only the SNCF is was nominated for her own succession.
But here too, with new, expanded specifications that the region intends to enforce: “From 2025, the train supply will be increased by 75% with a quarter of an hour for trains on the coast.
We will go from 69 daily round trips to 120 ”.
Economy
The candidates for the operation of the TER Marseille-Nice line are known
Elections
A few weeks before the regional elections in Paca, the privatization of TER is the subject of debate
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