Notice to fraudsters! The amount of the financial sanction will soon increase. Until now, an RATP user controlled in the metro, the tram or bus without a transport title has been liable to a fine of 50 euros, if it is paid immediately. Double if it is adjusted later. But this price, deemed too little dissuasive (50 euros, is the price of “only” 20 journeys in metro or 25 tram or bus trips) will be revised upwards, “in the coming weeks or months”.
Jean Castex, president of the RATP group, announced this Friday morning, during a “punch” control operation organized at the terminus of the Tram T3B line at the Porte de Vincennes. It will be one of the most striking elements of the fraud plan that the RATP will implement to meet the request of Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) The Organizing Authority for Regional Transport, which declared the “war on fraudsters” in mid-February.
Up to 120 euros if it is not set on site
“The current fines of fines are among the lowest European transport networks,” said the CEO of the RATP before detailing the amount of the increase he wishes to set up: more than 20 euros regardless of the payment method, or a PV which will increase to 70 euros in the event of direct settlement to the verbalizer controller and to 120 euros if it is acquitted later. According to RATP data, almost 60 % of verbalized travelers pay the fine immediately.
Even if the operators are free to fix the scales of their fines, the change of “price” desired by the RATP will still require a few steps of consultation provided for by the transport code and will not be applicable immediately. “It should be put in place before the summer,” insisted Jean Castex by announcing a multiplication of “punch” operations like that of the Porte de Vincennes this Friday morning, particularly on the tram and bus networks, devoid of the access gate system, and logically the most concerned by fraud with travelers’ rates estimated respectively at 16 % and 15 %.
According to IDFM, who asked operators to build their policies against rescuers, the cost of fraud represents a shortfall of 700 million euros per year in Île-de-France. “It’s considerable. It is the equivalent of the cost of two tram lines per year, “said Valérie Pécresse, president (LR) of the region and IDFM who attended the” punch “operation on the T3B. The 200th on the RATP network since the opening of the war for fraudsters a month ago.