Its CEO, Jean-Pierre Farandou, pleads for a sharp increase in investment in the rail network.
What if Macron’s second five-year term made it possible to boost rail transport, a good student in the fight against global warming? Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of the SNCF, wants to believe it. “My vision is to double the share of rail transport within ten years. To ensure that 20% of passenger journeys are made by train compared to 10% today“, he said Wednesday. Its ambition is equivalent on goods with a target of 18% of train journeys instead of 9% in 2021. This growth would be at the expense of cars and trucks, which monopolize 85% of journeys while being major emitters. of greenhouse gases.
This is not the first time that the boss of the rail group has set a long-term roadmap for the sector. In February, on the site of the Jean Jaurès Foundation, he had developed this idea, trying without success to make it a theme of the presidential campaign. This time, he goes further and quantifies his project: “The order…
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