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"note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-3fcf02c191497300", "field": "snippet", "text": "must renew every year on their birthday or risk a €72 fine", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-5969c0bba82dab97" ], "supportNote": "The site relays TaM's notice that the pass expires on the holder's birthday and must be renewed with a recent proof of address, and that travelling without a valid pass risks a €72 fine.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6d94f3bc29c9b128", "field": "snippet", "text": "visitors and non-residents still buy tickets", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", 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We will thus exceed 110 million trips, against 84 million in 2019'.", "caveat": "Operator-side figures; the 110 million was stated as a projection.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-7ba136feb1d4f9cd", "field": "impact", "text": "358,000 people held a Pass Gratuité by May 2024, against 86,000 paying subscribers before", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-49c6b0d94b7ebe61" ], "supportNote": "The Métropole lists 358,000 Pass Gratuité holders in May 2024 and 86,000 subscribers to the network in 2020.", "caveat": "The Métropole dates the 86,000 subscribers to 2020.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-1fb83436b77e02e1", "field": "impact", "text": "The Cour des comptes, reviewing the scheme on 28 November 2025", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-40f0397a3990c55c", "src-c6a5d4ce92daa2ee" ], "supportNote": "The audit court's Montpellier case study is the report reviewed; 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VAT, compensation is based on an average of 409,090 files a year, an average annual cost of €7.65M.", "caveat": "Enthusiast site quoting the council document verbatim.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-3393090c9fcc6687", "field": "lesson", "text": "without validations, the Métropole's figure rests on counting cells and the audit court's on its own survey of users and residents, which is part of why the Métropole and the audit court can report 33% and 20% for the same policy", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-49c6b0d94b7ebe61", "src-c6a5d4ce92daa2ee", "src-5fdf8b85ec0890ba" ], "supportNote": "The Métropole states its figures come from on-board counting cells since validations ended; Contrepoints says the Cour's net 20% rise came from its own survey of users and residents; the Métropole's +33% is in Le Journal Toulousain.", "caveat": "That the different methods explain part of the gap is the atlas's reading, not a statement by either body.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-b2cab18a6405a615", "title": "Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole — Gratuité des transports en commun", "url": "https://www.montpellier.fr/actions/les-grands-projets/gratuite-des-transports-en-commun", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "montpellier.fr", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-da01d6b0d02d15c5" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-10-05", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-10-05", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Official page: the three phases (5 Sept 2020 weekends, 1 Sept 2021 under-18s/over-65s, 21 Dec 2023 all residents), the 31 communes and ~500,000 residents, and the estimated per-household savings. 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Independent confirmation of the +23.7% (≈5 million extra trips) and of the switch from validations to counting cells; also two-thirds of ticket machines removed for €1.5M/year savings, ~€500,000/month still taken from non-resident ticket sales, and €116M of versement mobilité in 2023.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-40f0397a3990c55c", "title": "Cour des comptes — La contribution des usagers au financement des transports collectifs urbains : le cas de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole", "url": "https://www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publications/la-contribution-des-usagers-au-financement-des-transports-collectifs-urbains-le-cas-de", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "ccomptes.fr", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-1fb83436b77e02e1", "clm-4b611c9a6391d131", "clm-88f9ae2ccbdbb211", "clm-00279ecb7cc52071", "clm-a65b0366e9f52c86" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2025-11-28", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-10-05", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-10-05", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Published 28 November 2025 as the Montpellier case study of a broader enquiry issued 15 September 2025. 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