• Prices for parking, parking and public transport are expected to increase in Strasbourg. The ecologist majority announced this last week.
  • The opposition, left and right, opposes these measures. "While everyone is talking about a red March in relation to inflation, we have the only municipality in France that announces two increases in the same week," laments an elected representative of the Socialist Party.
  • "The goal is not financial. The goal is to free up urban space for other uses and that the tariff is as fair as possible, "defends the first deputy Syamak Agha Babaei.

Attention, heated debates in sight! The two councils, municipal Monday and Eurometropolitan Friday, promise to be very tense next week in Strasbourg. To the point of seeing the opposition leave the hemicycle as at the end of January "to say stop"?

The story is not there yet but left and right seem once again united against the ecologist majority (EELV). At least in the face of two major orientations recently communicated by the executive: the increase in parking rates and that of public transport.

"They have an exceptional sense of timing! While everyone is talking about a red March in relation to inflation, we have the only municipality in France that announces two increases in the same week," asserting the socialist elected Pernelle Richardot denouncing "iniquitous decisions, which serve everyone, are disconnected from the use of the city and constitute ecological nonsense. "

The words are different but the message is the same on the other side of the political spectrum. Jean-Philippe Vetter (Les Républicains) speaks of a "sledgehammer for the inhabitants" when Nicolas Matt and Pierre Jakubowicz (Horizons) accuse Jeanne Barseghian of carrying out "a policy of super-taxation and (to) recover (r) by all means the purchasing power returned to the people of Strasbourg by others."



In their sights, therefore, first this "revolution" of parking as it was presented. With a large "red zone", a district (Neudorf) that goes from free to paid and rising rates almost everywhere and for everyone. "The solidarity residential tariff will not move and some will even switch to it because it is indexed to household income," corrects to 20 Minutes Syamak Agha Babaei. The first deputy of the Alsatian capital insists: "The objective sought is not financial. The goal is to free up urban space for other uses and to make the tariff as fair as possible. »

Either a monthly subscription at 15 euros for people with the most modest incomes and up to 40 euros for the wealthiest, against 25 euros maximum until then. Estimated amount of these new revenues? "At most, three million additional euros per year but these are only forecasts," answers the elected official in charge of budgetary issues.

The tram ticket will increase from 1.70 to 1.90 euros

"There is no social tariff! In Lille for example, it is 10, 15 or 20 euros depending on his means. Here, most households will go to 30 or 40 euros per month," retorts Pernelle Richardot, attacking once again: "When we ask people to pay more, public services must be better. But where is the improvement? Certainly not in public transport either where delays are multiplying. »

This is the other major point of contention that will be raised at the agglomeration council. The majority of Pia Imbs wants to increase tram and bus tickets, from 1.70 euros to 1.90 euros for a one-way ticket. As another example, annual subscriptions for 26-64 year olds will increase from 518 to 560 euros, an increase of 8%. "The majority of subscribers will be preserved by this increase, which had not happened since 2015 and therefore did not keep pace with inflation," said Syamak Agha Babaei.

"They're in budget"

"We focus the greatest effort on occasional titles, as in all European cities," he explains. "The goal is to rebalance the share of users in financing the overall cost of public transit. It has declined in recent years and now accounts for less than 30 per cent of the total. The rest is provided by the community and companies with more than eleven employees, via the mobility payment. The first deputy does not hide it, it is also necessary to find money to compensate for one of the flagship measures of the mandate of the ecologist majority: the free subscription for the under 18s. A measure quantified "at 8 million euros per year".

"The truth is that they are in budgetary and that they have spent 2.3 million euros on ephemeral projects. Couldn't it have gone somewhere else? ", resumes, still as offensive, Pernelle Richardot. "In Strasbourg, residents are asked to pay more taxes, more parking fees and more transport costs because for three years, the executive has spent much more public money than it could afford," adds Jean-Philippe Vetter. They will be able to express it orally next week. Attention, heated debates in sight!

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