Carole Delga, the president of the Occitanie region has made rail one of the axes of her transport policy and according to our information, she will announce today a “one-euro train” offer for the first weekends of each month. . A rate that will also be offered on pollution alert days from 2023… This offer is the generalization of an experiment already carried out in recent months in Occitania. On the weekend of October 22, for example, 96,000 travelers benefited from these 1 euro tickets. Thanks to this, attendance was multiplied by five compared to the same weekend last year.
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This offer will obviously have a cost: two million euros per year. But the region considers that 350,000 liters of gasoline can be saved each weekend. Carole Delga wants to see in it a very concrete response to the social crisis on the one hand and to the climate crisis on the other.
The train as a response to inflation: this approach echoes other European initiatives such as the 49-euro package launched in Germany or free regional and suburban transport in Spain. Free in the long term, this is the objective that Carole Delga recently pushed in a column published in the press.
Carole Delga is also a name that we hear more and more on the left. She is probably the most courted socialist of the moment. A few weeks before the PS congress, everyone is working behind the scenes to show themselves at their side. For the time being, the boss of the Occitanie region remains at a distance and lets say those who claim to have her support.
Courted Delga, despite her sharp positions: she embodies, today, this left which refuses the agreement with the Nupes which she defines as “the bolivarian left”. In reality, her strategy is quite simple: Carole Delga gives pledges here and there to not get angry with anyone: “She puts marbles everywhere“, laughs a socialist executive who predicts that one day she will need the party. It must be said that some lend her personal inclinations. Carole Delga is content to affirm that the left can propose solutions.And when the Île-de-France region wonders about an increase to 100 euros in the Navigo Pass, she answers train at one euro on weekends. draft national campaign…