What if stations were managed by private operators?
What if they escaped the SNCF monopoly?
The unthinkable could become reality.
But only for secondary stations.
In fact, within the framework of the opening up to competition on regional trains (TER), the regions can include in their calls for tenders the management of small stations in addition to the maintenance of the tracks and the operation of railway lines.
Two of them are in the process of doing so.
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The group or groups that will be chosen to reopen the partially or totally closed Nancy-Contrexéville and Strasbourg-Saint-Dié-Épinal lines will also have to manage around twenty stations on the route in addition to the tracks
," says Jean Rottner, president of the region. Grand Est.
We are waiting for them to come up with new ideas to breathe new life into these buildings, which often have character.
»These stations are those of villages (Rothau, Pont-Saint-Vincent…).
The award of the contract is scheduled for 2023. With
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