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Everything in the car, it’s over, it’s become unpayable. You have to pay for an individual nearly 1,000 euros per month today for a new vehicle that you want to amortize over four years. Bart Jourquin, professor of transport and mobility at UCLouvain is very clear. There are still the happy owners of company cars who can still roll their wallets at ease, but over the years the question has generated increasingly flagrant social inequity. Individuals will still pay out of pocket, year after year, for a Citroën C3 or a Dacia Sandero. Salary car holders will have a BMW, Mercedes or Audi, the German premium brands.
Today, especially obviously if you are young and urban, you are thinking about the most efficient mobility solution, which goes from the car to the scooter, passing by buses and all means of public transport, without forgetting walking. foot. “A young person entering the labor market bought a car on the spot. This is no longer true today. Insurance costs him nearly 2,000 euros for a car. He can not. The car is no longer central. The question today is to see which mobility solution meets such a need and the car is no longer the only reflex. But this reflection has not yet percolated everywhere and it still has a few good years ahead of it, especially in small towns like Mons or Tournai and of course in the countryside.”, analyzes Bart Jourquin for whom car manufacturers have themselves anticipated this shift by offering more and more rental cars over four years. But even politically, we are far from a reversal of the situation with a minister of railways at the federal level, ministers of mobility at the regional level and still others, still at the regional level, responsible for regional planning.
