On this Monday, January 6, 2025, the day of recovery, we invite you to (re)read this article on the changes in transport in Ile-de-France in 2025:
It is nothing less than a revolution that will take place in Ile-de-France transport in January 2025. Tuesday, Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) announced the implementation of a single metro ticket price, RER or Transilien at 2.50 euros… throughout the region.
But this major measure is not the only one that will disrupt the lives of users, because the entire pricing system will be modified. We take stock.
Unified rates
From January 1, 2025, a single ticket at 2.50 euros will be implemented throughout the Île-de-France region. It will apply to the metro but also to the RER and the transiliens, regardless of the location or distance of the journey.
This represents an increase for Parisians and residents of the inner suburbs, who until then paid 2.15 euros per unit (or 1.73 euros per book of ten) for an intramural metro trip, but an clear drop for residents of the outer suburbs who could pay up to 10 euros for certain journeys from suburb to suburb.
Bus and tram tickets will also increase to 2 euros across the entire surface network.
The only exception to this generalization is the “airport” ticket which retains a specific price. But here again, while several prices were possible (from 10.30 euros to 16.60 euros), it will be unified for more clarification. From now on, you will have to pay 13 euros whether you go to Roissy (Roissybus, RER B) or Orly (Orlybus, Line 14).
Liberty +: A card to replace them all, and in the future eliminate the cardboard ticket
This generalization is justified by Valérie Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France Mobilités agency, by the desire to simplify the offer. Until then, the multitude of formulas depending on the zones and modes of transport were “absurd” and a real “price trap” according to the elected official who spoke this Wednesday.
In its simplification approach, IDFM is banking on the Liberté + pass. Still relatively unknown, it allows you to pay for transport as you use it, via invoicing the following month. It will also increase on January 1, 2025, from 1.73 euros to 1.99 euros for a rail transport journey, and will remain more advantageous for bus and tram passengers, since the future surface transport ticket will cost 1.60 euros.
If until now it was only available in the metro and buses in Paris and the inner suburbs, it can now be used everywhere in Ile-de-France, in all modes of transport.
Above all, it will facilitate connections between two different modes of transport. Until now, you had to take two different tickets. From now on, the pass will only have one: the customer will only pay for the most expensive ticket, “the cheapest being offered”, explained Valérie Pécresse. Enough to divide the price of certain journeys “by two or four,” she said.
This priority given to the Liberty + pass marks the end of the reduced-rate digital ticket book, which will disappear in January, but also of the magnetic cardboard ticket which should completely bow out at the end of 2025, says Valérie Pécresse.
Self-financing
Such a reform of course has a cost: an additional 30 million euros, according to IDFM, if behavior does not change. But that’s not the transportation authority’s plan. According to the president of the region, “this reform is self-financed. We believe that these new fares will result in an increase in transport use of around 1 to 2%, and we will intensify the fight against fraud,” she said.
According to IDFM, these new prices should encourage motorists – in the outer suburbs in particular – to use more public transport, in particular “express coaches” and long-distance buses. But also Parisian motorists who would be encouraged to use transport by simplifying connections, and why not “discover the RER” to go “to the Château de Versailles, Disneyland or the Fontainebleau forest”, takes Valérie Pécresse as an example.
“End social divides”
Through this “ticketing revolution”, the objective stated by the region is “to follow through on the logic of the single Navigo pass” initiated by Jean-Paul Huchon, president of Île-de-France at the time. , with the Navigo pass (which does not change).
An approach aimed at “putting an end to social divisions”, “the same right to transport for all” to the advantage of residents of the outer suburbs who “paid more for their transport for fewer offers”, explained Valérie Pécresse.
This plan was also unanimously welcomed, both by user associations and by the regional left-wing opposition.