After thirty years of unique public service delegation, the President of the Métropole proposes the allotment of the operation of the metro, trams and buses, and promises a social base to the employees. The unions call for the strike.
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After the control of water, transport. After resuming the management of the distribution of water from the beginning of its mandate, the ecologist majority of the metropolis of Lyon decided to put into play the rules of the public transport market of the second agglomeration of France, breaking With thirty years of a single delegation that encompassed all modes of transport. President (Europe Ecology-The Greens) of the Metropolis of Lyon since July 2020, Bruno Bernard must propose the allotment of this public contract, at a board of directors of the joint transport union for the Rhone and the agglomeration Lyonnaise (SYTRAL) scheduled Thursday, March 10th.
This reform should apply from June 2024, for the renewal of the Public Service Delegation (DSP). The operation aims to distribute in several lots the transport management of the agglomeration of Lyon, passing markets by modes of travel. The new governance of the Syrtal is considering two main lots: one for the exploitation of the rail (metro, tram, line Rhônexpress to connect the airport), another for the bus management of the urban areas of the Lyon region.
The reform essentially affects the Lyon agglomeration, which includes four metro lines, seven tram lines and 120 bus lines, for a total of 1.7 million trips made every day. The last DSP, in 2016, for a total budget of the order of 3 billion euros, was won by Keolis, a subsidiary of the SNCF, of which it had become one of the “showcases” in the world. The duration of the DSP was then extended by one and a half years due to the political change at the head of the metropolis in 2020 and because of the crisis due to CVIV-19, which delayed the technical implementation of new Calls for tenders.
“Abnormal situation”
“In the last renewal of the DSP, there was only one answer. Only one operator was a candidate. There is no real competition, on a contract of 450 million ‘Euros per year. This is an abnormal situation, which has been recorded in a 2019 report of the Regional Chamber of Accounts, “says Bruno Bernard. “The objective of this division is to return to competition between private operators, in order to create better conditions of transport development of our territory,” adds the elected ecologist.
From the beginning, the president of the metropolis also wanted to hold the Presidency of the Sytral, with its 4 billion euros in investment budget over the term of office, to make collective transport a determining tool of its policy. environmental. Similar to the recovery of the river of the water, this decision is political: “far too much skills have passed in the hands of the unique delegate. The syrtral is an organizing authority and must have the means to define the overall vision of the development of his territory, “says Bernard.
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