Île-de-France: Scandal over the 2030 Mobility Plan

The Île-de-France Region has adopted its major “Mobility Plan 2030”, a green varnish over the problems.

Officially, this plan is supposed to make mobility in Île-de-France “sustainable” and “inclusive”. In practice, it illustrates a well-known drift: reducing the future of transport to an accounting exercise of emissions, without ever confronting the realities experienced by users. Because behind the polished communication and sophisticated environmental simulations, no answers are provided to the network’s structural problems.

The document sets out a battery of virtuous targets: -26 % greenhouse gas emissions, a transformation of air quality, tripling the number of bike trips, -15 % fewer motorized journeys… Very well. But a mobility plan is not limited to a list of climate indicators. It must guarantee that transport works. And on that, radio silence.

And a plan to live better?

At no point does the Plan address what people in Île-de-France experience every day: repeated delays, cancelled trains, infrastructure breakdowns, chronic overcrowding. Punctuality — the primary quality criterion for users — appears nowhere. Nothing either on the reliability of rolling stock, nor on the real capacity of lines already on the brink of collapse.

Even more troubling, the chapter on « road safety » is limited to reducing fatalities, without addressing safety within the transport system itself, while assaults, incivilities and harassment are skyrocketing in some areas. The human aspect, nonetheless central, disappears in favour of a strictly environmental approach.

As for accessibility, so crucial in an ageing region — a topic already raised in the demographic projections — it is never treated as an emergency. Nothing on unsuitable platforms, stations still unusable for people with reduced mobility, buses where boarding remains an obstacle course.

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The Mobility Plan 2030 claims a « inclusive mobility ». But how can you talk about inclusion when you ignore the most vulnerable groups? How can you talk about the future when you refuse to look at the current gaps in the network?

By turning transport into a mere ecological variable, the Region signs off on a plan that skirts the essential: providing a service that is decent, reliable and accessible. An incomplete plan, and deeply disconnected from everyday life in Île-de-France.

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