Small tourist trains in Argelès-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales), launched on May 1. Montpellier administrative court cancels contract with Keolis-Pagès group for seven years.
Court took care to attach its judgment to a stay until September 1 to protect the high tourist season from chaos. The small Trainbus company, “released” from service by the DSP, is preparing its machines to provide service from May 1st. “We have the right to travel by prefectural decree granted in 2019 for a period of ten years, explains Benjamin Elallouf, operator of the network since 1986 and who brandishes the decision of the Council of State in his favor. The city's mayor accepted the judgment without communicating the decision to appeal or not in this financially embarrassing case for the city's public accounts. In the event of definitive renunciation, heavy compensation would have to be paid to the operator.