The price of a single Paris metro ticket will almost double during the summer, announced the president of the Ile-de-France transport union IDFM, Valérie Pécresse, who thus wishes to finance the additional cost of transport linked to Paris 2024 Olympics.
The metro ticket will thus increase to 4 euros (compared to 2.10 euros currently) and the notebook to 32 euros (compared to 16.90 euros), announced Valérie Pécresse in a video published on X (formerly Twitter). Monthly and annual Navigo packages, Imagin’R and senior passes “will not be affected by these increases”, clarified Valérie Pécresse, who also announced the launch of a special package for visitors.
A package at 16 euros per day
“On the occasion of the Olympic Games”, “we will create a new pass, the Passe Paris 2024, which will allow visitors to travel throughout Ile-de-France”, indicated in a video published on X ( ex-Twitter) Valérie Pécresse.
This new package, which will be available from July 20 to September 8, “will cost 16 euros per day”, with a decreasing rate depending on the number of days, and “70 euros per week”. It will allow travelers to access the entire Ile-de-France network, including airports and Orlyval, IDFM told AFP. “It’s the right price,” believes Valérie Pécresse, for whom there is “no question of Ile-de-France residents paying” the additional cost – which she estimates at 200 million euros – generated by the Olympic Games.
Limit queues
In order to transport some 10 million spectators, the RATP and SNCF will in fact be forced to significantly increase the number and frequency of their trains on the Ile-de-France network. To force occasional passengers to opt for the Olympics package and limit the queues generated by the massive purchase of single tickets, the price of these will be temporarily increased at the same time.
The price of the journey to the airports will also be increased (16 euros, compared to around 11 euros currently for Roissy and Orly) and “the other day and week packages will be suspended”, adds Le Parisien, according to an interview with the president of ‘IDFM. “Subscribers who have a monthly or annual Navigo, an Imagin’R pass or a senior pass will not be affected by these increases,” Valérie Pécresse clarified in her video.
She advises “occasional travelers” outside the Olympic Games to anticipate and “purchase their transport ticket before July 20, either on an Easy card or on Liberté+, so as not to be impacted by these increases”. The adoption of these new rates is subject to a vote by the IDFM Board of Directors on December 7, the organizing authority for Ile-de-France transport told AFP.