Le Train pour Tous

Le Train pour Tous is an independent citizen movement defending two reforms: aligning VAT on rail travel with other essential goods (5.5 %), and capping SNCF Réseau tolls at 22 % of the ticket. The site had to make the case in seconds, not paragraphs.

Every figure carries a footnote; every footnote carries a source. Type sizes were chosen so the visitor reads a figure and its provenance in the same glance, no toggling, no modals. The methodology file is in the repo, not behind a paywall, and the page links to it from every claim that exceeds a single decimal.

It earns the full width of the screen because it earns the full attention of the reader. A simulator below the bar lets the visitor replace the reference Paris to Lyon trip with their own; the bar shrinks live to the new price. We rejected pie charts (small angles, no comparison), stacked columns (vertical reading is slower), and donut variants (decorative). A single horizontal bar is the shortest distance between the question "where does my 80 € go?" and an answer the reader can repeat.

Next.js 16 with MDX, Recharts for the bar, Tailwind 4 for the type. No analytics that follow the visitor; no CMS we have to babysit. Posts are MDX files in the repo with a YAML frontmatter, the same lever every article uses. The full methodology lives at the project root as a single Markdown file, designed to be forked by other movements who want to apply the same protocol to a different price.