2023-12-08 15:46:06
Published on Dec 7 2023 at 5:49 p.m.Updated Dec 8 2023 at 4:46 p.m.
The controversies linked to the Olympic Games and transport follow one another and are similar. The Ile-de-France network will most likely not be able to absorb both their usual passenger flows and the spectators who come to watch the events. As a warning, Valérie Pécresse invited “all those who can to telework” during this period.
“That the government asks Ile-de-France residents who can to telework from August 1 to 12 to avoid transport being overloaded, that’s just called passenger information,” she downplayed during a press conference. at the end of the board of directors of Ile-de-France Mobilités, the regional transport authority.
Cross the Bois de Boulogne on foot
“We will be ready for the Olympics,” however, wanted to reassure Valérie Pécresse, brushing aside the fears expressed at the end of November by Anne Hidalgo, and more recently by the prefect of the Ile-de-France region, Marc Guillaume. In a letter revealed by Le Canard Enchaîné and addressed to the Ministry of Transport, the prefect warns “that the saturation thresholds will be regularly exceeded” during the Games for 11 metro lines, five RER lines and five Transiliens. “In certain places, the transport plan only allows spectators to be transported if all or almost all other travelers were dissuaded,” writes Marc Guillaume.
“For us the subject is the west of the Ile-de-France region,” recalled Valérie Pécresse. The concurrent competitions at the Parc de Princes and Roland-Garros risk overloading line 9 beyond what it can absorb. “We are going to put buses in, encourage people to take the RER C and perhaps we will be able to cross the Bois de Boulogne on foot or go up the Seine on foot, there are worse things in summer,” said the regional president.
“We have to open the chakras at some point, we are going to welcome the world and we are the only country that is not happy about it,” she lamented, expressing her confidence in the success of the event.
800,000 spectators per day
“It’s true, there is still work to do,” admitted Minister for Transport Clément Beaune, on the Franceinfo morning show. “For the people, the Ile-de-France residents and the Parisians who will be there, who want to go to work, as we have said, we will launch a specific information campaign from January,” indicated the minister.
It will be necessary, “for those who can, more teleworking,” he warned. The minister also encouraged Ile-de-France residents to “take their leave rather during this period – the Olympics – than before or after”. The objective is to “relieve our daily transport a little during this period”, he hoped. During the Olympics – July 26 to August 11 – around 800,000 spectators per day will have to be transported to the competition sites.
Source AFP
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