• Valérie Pécresse, president of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), announced the probable increase in the price of the Navigo pass to cope with rising energy costs.

  • The monthly pass would then go to 90 euros, against 75 euros currently and the single ticket at 2.30 euros against 1.90

  • The environmentalist, communist and citizen group of the Ile-de-France Regional Council claims that this measure would cause the loss of between 30,000 and 40,000 RATP subscribers

Anaïs, 29, lives and works in Seine-Saint-Denis.

"Out of habit, but also for reasons of economy and ecology, I travel to my work by public transport, although it is much more painful and longer than taking my car", says the young woman. .

Indeed, she lives 7 kilometers from her work, which represents about twenty minutes by car, compared to 35 minutes to an hour by public transport.

If the increase in the price of the Navigo pass is effective, it has already made its decision.

"I will stop my annual Navigo subscription because clearly, for me, it will no longer be profitable", explains Anaïs.

She is not the only one in this case.

“How do you make people want to take their thermal vehicles less, if you increase the price of public transport, all without improving the service?

asks Laura, 31, who has also planned to abandon the metro and get back in her car.

A cheaper fine than the pass

The inhabitants of intramural Paris, meanwhile, are more likely to consider cycling or… cheating.

“I may start cheating, too, and pay a fine from time to time… It may cost me less than the 1,000 euros per year in a pass”, explains a witness, under cover of anonymity.

A forced choice for the majority of them.

“This increase of 15 euros is too much.

It will be 180 euros per year more, combined with the rise in the price of electricity and the cost of living, it is just no longer possible for my budget", regrets a 26-year-old user, who will put himself , too, to jump over the gates.



For her part, Chayma, a resident of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, will take up cycling to go to her school in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), but not without apprehension… “I had planned to take transport by mixing RER and bus, but now, for sure, I'm going to take a bike and go through the Bois de Boulogne, hoping not to be raped at 7 a.m., "says the 28-year-old student.

Stay at home

Others are looking at à la carte packages and considering drastically reducing their trips.

Unemployed, Anne, 61, cannot be reimbursed for half of her transport subscription by her employer.

“I'm going to stay at home, I'll buy a 10-ticket card that I'll try to make last as long as possible.

I will only take the metro or the bus if I have to, for example to go to a job interview,” she explains.

All RATP users who responded to our questionnaire agree on one point: this increase could be justified if the quality of service was there, which is not the case.

“We should expect punctuality, cleanliness and more buses and metros, but no.

It stinks of sewers, we are cloistered like sardines and we are asked to pay 90 euros a month!

», Gets carried away Chayma.

This increase in the price of the pass would even push some Ile-de-France residents to… leave the capital.

"After being pushed back from Paris 20th to the inner suburbs, then to the depths of the suburbs, zone 5 of the Navigo, I understood that my only options for survival that were more or less durable and bearable were necessarily outside the capital region", writes Nathalie.

A radical decision, which is not only due to the increase in the price of the pass.

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