Pécresse confirms a staggering of the opening to competition of buses

2023-07-10 08:23:48

The president of Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) Valérie Pécresse confirmed on Sunday July 9 in The echoesthe staggering of the timetable for the opening of RATP Parisian buses to competition until the end of 2026, in order to calm concerns and avoid disruptions during the 2024 Olympics.

Following the recommendations of a report produced in particular by the former boss of the RATP Jean-Paul Bailly, the bus networks furthest from the center should be allocated to the new companies between September 2024 and until the end of the first half of the year. 2025, with an entry-into-service period of nine to 12 months, the newspaper said in its Monday edition. The allocation of the last « lots » of the new division of the network, those of intramural Paris (left and right bank), will run until the end of 2026.

Social advantages

Initially hostile to this spread, Valérie Pécresse said she was ready in mid-April to “gradual implementation” the opening of Parisian buses to competition, without giving up the deadline for the end of the monopoly in December 2024, which raises fears of social movements during the summer of the Olympic Games.

According The echoes, the president of the Île-de-France region also provides that drivers changing employers can keep certain social benefits from the RATP, such as health coverage or the works council. The decree which governs their transfer granted them, in fact, less advantageous conditions.

IDFM must, to keep its promise, modify this decree with the agreement of the Ministry of Transport. According to the newspaper, nearly 1,000 agents from certain areas of the middle crown should also benefit from this harmonization.

The president of Île-de-France Mobilités also promises that the drivers will remain assigned to their current line, but also to the same depot, to avoid taking them too far from their place of work.

In return, Valérie Pécresse asks the drivers to give up for a period of one year the reduction of their working hours from 1 p.m. to 11 a.m. for the days « en double service »the time to remedy shortages of drivers, indicate The echoes.