If pollution demands less cars in town, Angers city should generalize low fares for all inhabitants

In order to stimulate Angers inhabitants to use collective transportation modes, the municipal council has, before summer, decided to increase the fares of public parking lots. Such an idea could not be sufficient to trigger a change of behaviour. Another way could be possible : to extend to a larger part of the Angers population the benefits of reduced fares presently applicable to persons or families having low incomes.

At normal conditions, a round-trip ticket costs 2,80 euros. Is such a price sufficiently competitive to lead a part of the Angers inhabitants to take the buses instead of their own cars?  But who could, from a material point of view, use his, or her, own car : Angers inhabitants. So Angers inhabitants, whatever be their income, should benefit of reduced fares. Another reason pledges logically for such an extension.

Angers city representatives have repeated that time was come to limit or even reduce the present position of cars in urban traffiec for ecological purposes. If that is true, and at least it is, it would be wise to extend the reduced fares of Irigo to all Angers inhabitants, paying local taxes, because the pollution is not connected to the incomes of Angers households.