Cheaper public transport all day
Public transport is cheaper across the country today in a bid to get more people out of their cars
CHEAP buses and trains are available across France today for Public Transport Day – plus the chance to buy cut-price season tickets.
Marking Mobility and Transport Security Week, it is a bid to get more people on to public transport; a trend that is already increasing.
The advantages vary across the country with some places, like Aquitaine, offering cheaper rail season tickets (€15 off the annual IZY Pas for regular travellers), and, in Dordogne, the bus network Péribus is offering all-day tickets for €1.
Next door in the Limousin, SNCF is offering €5 off a weekly pass and in Corrèze transport is free all day on the Brive-la-Gaillarde Libeo network.
Brittany has a buy-one, get-one free ticket offer on the trains and buses are free in Douarnenez, Landerneau ; while in Quimper you get a day ticket for the price of an ordinary ticket.
Most of the offers are only valid for today, however some bus and train operators are running special deals throughout the week. This map lists all the promotions in each region and the validity period.
A survey has shown public transport use rose 1.7 per cent in the first four months of this year and that more people are realising that they will have to switch in the future.
One study also showed that 39 per cent of public transport users said they had no car.
Five years ago, in the run-up to the first Public Transport Day a poll showed that 61 per cent of people said they would not change their car usage until politicians had come up with alternatives; now 54 per cent of people say they will have to change their habits.
Last year’s campaign was taken up by 32 million people – one in two people in the country.
Photo: GIE OTP - G.Crampes
