After the derogatory certificates of displacement, place to those to go to the office? The Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari confirmed this Thursday morning on France 2 that users of public transport in Île-de-France will have to have authorization from their employer from May 11 indicating a time slot to avoid the influx of travelers during peak hours. The terms of this certificate will be confirmed and specified after an interministerial arbitration this Thursday, as confirmed in Le Figaro the entourage of Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
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Encourage telework
"To smooth the hours of arrival in the company, employers have committed to produce certificates specifying the slots for use of public transport, assured the Secretary of State this morning. This is the work we are doing: encouraging telework and avoiding peak hours. ” This certificate is one of the components of the charter signed on Wednesday afternoon by the Ile-de-France regional prefect, the Region, but also employers' organizations such as the Medef Ile-de-France, the CPME Ile-de -France, or the U2P (Union of local businesses).
Regarding the possible sanction, the Secretary of State gave some details. “ There will be no fines but simply controls and refusals of access for users who do not have the certificate. We want it to work, but we don't want to make the life of Ile-de-France an obstacle course. "
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Modified time ranges
The charter signed on Wednesday provides for different arrival times in companies, from 6.30 am to 10.30 am. Same for departures, from 3.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. " If this certificate is put in place and the peak hours are effectively smoothed, we can consider transporting many more people every day," said Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Île-de-France region, at a hearing on Wednesday. before senators. We don't want Ile-de-France to turn into a giant traffic jam. "
Medef Paris president Charles Znaty explains to Le Figaro that “you have to understand that next week, you won't have to take transport if you don't need it. These measures are made so that people understand that we have to go slowly. ”
According to Charles Znaty, "if this certificate is applied, companies will comply with it, even if they start to tire of administrative documents that they have been filling out for two months ..." The president of Medef Paris believes that this certificate, " issued by a legal person for a natural person ", must "include the stamp of the company and will surely be printed by the " employee ".
"You have to double line 13"
“ It is a good thing to regulate hour by hour, but technically, how are we going to be able to do it? wonders Bruno Gazeau, the president of the National Federation of Transport User Associations. Can we use the Navigo pass to sort? Do we have to go through security? ” In this regard, the RATP has already announced that it will deploy on May 11, 3000 agents " dedicated exclusively to channeling flows and respecting physical distance ".
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Bruno Gazeau concedes that in these times of crisis, "nothing can be done without a contribution from everyone" , and in particular from transport users. But while it is planned that 70% of the RATP transport offer will be put into circulation on May 11, he believes that it would be imperative to “raise this offer to 100% and double certain lines such as 1 or 13 by buses that would run every one to two minutes ” . " You have to use all the equipment you have!" he explains again.
