Transportation will have the right to its programming law. In any case, this is what Minister Philippe Tabarot promised this Friday, October 24. “We are preparing for the future with a framework bill on transport that will come after the PLF (finance bill), in parallel with the text on decentralization announced by the Prime Minister,” he declared during his first hearing since his re-election in government before the Sustainable Development Commission of the National Assembly.
He outlined a roadmap of ambitious projects, although he admitted that they all depend on the sustainability of Sébastien Lecornu’s fragile government. Regeneration of obsolete railway lines and equipment, development of daily urban transport, implementation of regional RER networks announced by Emmanuel Macron, new models of financing and governance of motorway infrastructure: the framework law, expected by both communities and users, must serve to “translate into legislative provisions” the “consensus” that emerged during the “Ambition Transport” conference. led by the Bayrou government, the minister stated.
Review planned for “early 2026”
He hopes that the text of the multiannual law will be presented to Parliament “in early 2026.” Regarding motorway concessions, whose future law should allow part of the income to be allocated to the financing of the railway from 2031, the minister wanted them to be “shorter and with State participation in the capital.”
Regarding rail transport, the Minister stressed the need to develop a unified ticketing system, so that passengers do not bear the costs of opening up to competition.
In the 2026 budget project, the minister considered the credits allocated to aeronautical research through the Civil Aeronautical Research Council (Corac) insufficient and indicated that he had, as in 2025, funds from the France 2030 investment plan, to compensate for the budget cut.
Source: BFM TV
