"Not easy... Not cheap... Not practical..." The new motorcycle pass, called Pass 2RM, which the Parisian municipality has asked public car park operators to set up since September, obviously does not appeal to motorcyclists who are looking to reduce the bill surface parking by parking underground.
Open to all bikers, Parisians or not, this subscription formula (at 90 euros per month in zone 1 and 70 euros in zone 2) entitles you to unlimited parking in a car park of your choice - called reference car park - and to reductions in the hourly rate in other partner car parks.
Unevenly distributed car parks
Problem: this new package system cannot be used in all of the concession car parks in Paris.
And the 70 car parks “eligible” for the PTW Pass (out of a total of more than 120) are very unevenly distributed in the capital.
There are none in the 11th, 19th or 20th arrondissements.
What should limit demand for motorcyclists who are not sure of finding a well-located “reference car park”?
The Indigo company, which manages around fifty of these eligible car parks, is however satisfied with the progress of its “motorcycle” activity.
If the concessionaire does not indicate how many Passes have been subscribed to since September, it points out that the number of its two-wheel subscribers (all formulas combined) doubled in 2022. “1,400 subscriptions were sold, out of a total of 2 600 seats.
It is beyond what we imagined.
We thought it would take longer,” says Sébastien Fraisse, CEO of the Indigo group.
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Saemes, the semi-public company of the City of Paris, is posting modest results in terms of 2WD Passes.
The operator has dedicated 165 spaces in 11 of its Paris car parks to subscribers to this new subscription formula.
They are currently occupied by… 37 customers.
But Saemes, which offers its own two-wheeler packages (some of which are much cheaper than the 2WD Pass), has a total of 1,283 active motorcycle subscriptions in all of its parks.
More than 760,000 motorized two-wheelers are registered in Paris and the inner suburbs.
It is estimated that several tens of thousands of them cross the capital daily.
