Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-24-Speech-1-137"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development of the Community's railways - Certification of train drivers operating locomotives and trains on the railway system in the Community - Rail passengers' rights and obligations (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070924.17.1-137"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-24-Speech-1-1382
lpv:speaker	lp:Fernand Le Rachinel2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2007-09-12--2008-02-10)3 member; ITS (2007-01-15--2007-11-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Front national (2004-10-22--2009-03-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is well known that rail transport has always been the poor relation compared with road transport. Indeed, with regard to goods traffic, rail has been losing the battle in every country in Europe. I am pleased to say that the situation today looks set to improve, particularly since the Commission’s decision – as part of the first Railway Package – that at least 40% of spending on transport should go to the railways. Infrastructure, in particular, needs to benefit from this spending because all the closures of non-profitable railway lines have resulted in road transport taking over a significant proportion of both freight and passenger traffic. Of my colleague Dirck Sterckx’s report concerning rail passengers’ rights and obligations I would say that it is essentially sound, focusing as it does on the protection of passengers, with measures including compensation when trains are late, a right to transport for people with reduced mobility, and carrier liability for passengers and their baggage. However, one point of major importance to all families appears to have been completely lost in this report. I am talking about the right to reduced ticket prices for large families. Certain Member States of the Union already have this system whereby a card entitles large families to reductions of between 50% and 75% depending on the number of children – France is one example – yet curiously there are no proposals or even plans for such an arrangement in the draft regulation. However, if we want to step up the development of passenger traffic on the railways, this measure, which is attractive not only financially but also in terms of savings on travel time in comparison with road transport, would undoubtedly give us a strong card in the rail-versus-road battle."@en1

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