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Macron law, liberalization of transport by coach




by sen-no-sen » 09/04/15, 19:47

The map of the future French coach network after the Macron law

The opening up of national bus lines to competition will lead to the creation of new routes. Bordeaux will for example be linked to Lyon

Among the measures that make up the Macron law: the creation of coach lines to promote internal travel. A project presented in October by the Minister of the Economy. A somewhat awkward announcement since Emmanuel Macron had mentioned a text for "the poor who can not travel".

Since Monday, deputies have been examining this bill and its 200 articles. 15 days of debate at the Assembly which must also allow to rule on the 3000 amendments tabled. On Tuesday, the bus component was adopted, which makes the legislation more flexible and will encourage the development of new lines. A Bordeaux-Lyon should thus see the light of day.

BFMTV recalls that today, "two types of links coexist. The first ensure the connection between SNCF stations and towns located nearby. There are 371. The second are links crossing France, provided by companies that take advantage of this to welcome passengers. " This law is well received by the actors of the sector, in particular Transdev, via its subsidiary Eurolines, which envisaged in December a launch "in a massive way" of the lines of coach in France. It was necessary to wait for the approval of the authorities, it is now thing to do.


http://www.sudouest.fr/2015/01/29/la-carte-du-futur-reseau-francais-d-autocars-apres-la-loi-macron-1813577-4755.php

The government now more limit when it comes to bad ideas, Emmanuel Macron did not need more to lay down a new liberal law for us.
The principle is simple: private transport companies will now be able to compete with SNCF, which, already being in a bad shape for the past few years, will have no other choice but to align themselves with the prices of the competition by means of job cuts.
Another notorious advance: time.
Where it used to take 2 hours to make a Paris / Lyon trip, you now need 6 by coach (I have tried the ID bus several times), progress is great!

The argument could not be more altruistic: allow the "poor" to travel "cheap".
Ex: A one-way trip to Paris Bercy / Lyon Perrache is between 29 and 39 euros and 6 hours of driving, isn't it cheap?

If the coaches have all their place in the context of multi-modality, (and how much!), It is completely stupid to develop this type of line over distances greater than 100km ...

We find with this type of measure the principle of retro-active loop of job destruction: unemployment increases, so we liberalize the market to allow the "poor to travel", in fact we weaken a company like the SNCF. .We are eliminating SNCF posts, which creates unemployment, and therefore more poor people, so we accelerate ultra-liberal measures to allow the "poor to travel", which destroys even more jobs etc ... etc ... logic is hellish.
We are eliminating positions or we can have a career and we replace them with jobs poorly paid and "flexible" busy, directive Bolkestein forced by poor workers from other countries (Macron law does not boast about it ...) and so on until the collapse ...



: Arrow: SNCF could cut 10 jobs by 000


Rail reform will speed up job cuts at SNCF. At least 10 000 full-time equivalents could disappear from the 150 jobs that the national company has today. This is the strongest conclusion of an expert report produced by the cabinet Degest on behalf of the central works council of SNCF, published Thursday, February 000.

Even if the railway reform was voted in August 2014, the elected members of the central works council, and in particular the CGT which directs it, do not disarm. They first fought the reform by going on strike in June 2014. Now, they plan to continue the battle internally ... A kind of second round.

One of the objectives of the reform is to stabilize the debt of the rail system, which today derives from 3 billion euros per year. To do this, the group has committed to reduce its costs by its own means by 1,5 billion euros. Furthermore, stopping the development of high-speed lines, which will cost 2016 billion euros in annual deficit until 1,5, will make it possible to reduce the debt drift even further.

SNCF Mobilité, SNCF Réseau and SNCF (which covers the other two entities) are each expected to save 500 million per year. For SNCF Mobilité, this will result in the loss of 10 jobs, after having already cut 000 over the period 25-000. For Arnaud Eymery, of the Degest firm, "the number of job cuts will go from 2003 full-time equivalents (FTE) per year to 2013 FTE per year by 1" ...
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The closure of 7 km of tracks

The network, says Degest, could be cut by at least a quarter from 30 km of current tracks unless de 23 km in the medium term. In terms of savings, closing 7 km of tracks would save € 500 million per year, by cutting 3454 jobs, according to a scenario presented in 2009 by Réseau ferré de France. And if the public authorities decided to stop 15 km of tracks, the SNCF would save 000 billion euros.



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by chatelot16 » 09/04/15, 20:12

there is nonsense in the air

the train is technically the best way, but by pushing the train at an exessive speed like TGV one makes him lose his advantage of economy

since the sncf does not make any more economic train at average speed that gives possibilities has transport by bus

it's a shame because transport by coach will be energetically more expensive than by train

where is the error? the roads are paid by the general state budget ... the railways are fully paid by the price of the train tickets ... wouldn't there be a distorted competition?

if all the maintenance of the roads were fully paid by the TIPP there would be commercial equality between train and road, but alas the TIPP is not enough ... and it is impossible to increase it ... the only solution is to subsidize sncf to put it on par with the road!

and if the sncf were restored to state of efficiency the coaches would be useful only for the cases where there is no railroad

what is sad is the number of tracks that have been dismantled
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