This time, it is the board of directors, almost unanimously, which requests it. Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) once again calls on the State, so that the latter compensates for the financial losses linked to the health crisis. With the pandemic, attendance has still not returned to normal, and unemployment persists. Consequence: "The decline of the two main resources of Île-de-France Mobilités, namely tariff revenue and the mobility payment, would amount to 1.3 billion euros in 2021" compared to normal, explains the organizing authority for Ile-de-France transport in a wish approved on Tuesday.
In detail, IDFM lost 1 billion euros in tariff revenue, due to the drop in sales of annual Navigo passes.
To which must be added 300 million euros for the reduction of the mobility payment, contribution owed by companies to the financing of transport.
IDFM also considers that it has been harmed in comparison with other metropolises, such as “London and New York, for which the subsidy component amounted to approximately 60%”, against only 10% for Paris.
"Without this money, some investments will have to be postponed"
IDFM's revenues are mainly used to run trains, pay agents or finance certain renovation or construction sites.
Last June, Valérie Pécresse had already warned: “Without this money, we will have to postpone certain investments, increase the Navigo pass or reduce the offer.
These are options that I refuse.
This is why I demand a second bailout plan, ”she said at the time.
Last September, at the end of a standoff of several months, where IDFM had stopped paying RATP and SNCF, the State ended up granting a subsidy and a zero-rate loan to cover the cash flow hole. .
The signed agreement then provided for "a review clause in 2021 and 2022 if the crisis were to continue," Valérie Pécresse then told AFP.
During the first confinement, traffic to the Ile-de-France network had dropped drastically. She has never returned to normal since. Even if it is now less catastrophic than expected, the drop remains significant. The number of travelers is currently only 65% of what it was before the crisis. IDFM is betting on 75% at the start of the school year. At the beginning of July, Catherine Guillouard, president of the RATP, feared not to find usual attendance for two or three years.