2023-11-23 01:15:45
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, estimated Wednesday evening “that we are not going to be ready” on public transport in the capital at the time of the 2024 Olympic Games, citing an insufficient number and frequency of trains in certain places.
Questioned in the TMC Quotidien program, the socialist mayor spoke of “two things for which we are not going to be ready”, namely “transport” and “sheltering people without a fixed home”.
“We are still in difficulty, already, in everyday transport, and we cannot manage to catch up with the level (…) of punctuality, of comfort for Parisians,” noted Anne Hidalgo.
“There will not be the number of trains and frequency”
Asked to specify what would not be ready for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the mayor mentioned the future RER E Porte Maillot station. “In fact, there are places where transport will not be ready because there will not be the number of trains and the frequency,” she explained.
When asked if the responsibility fell to the Île-de-France Region, which has authority over Ile-de-France transport, Anne Hidalgo replied: “the government a little too”. “But we do all this together, so I feel concerned too,” she added.
The government and Pécresse react
The Minister Delegate for Transport was quick to react. Using a famous meme (diverted image) on the social network .
“We would have appreciated the presence of Anne Hidalgo on the mobility committees of the Olympic and Paralympic Games if she has any proposals to make on transport,” also tackled the president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse ( LR), on X. “Thank you to her for solving the problem of traffic jams in Paris to allow bus traffic! “, she joked again.
Mobility in the Paris region during the Olympic and Paralympic Games constitutes a challenge for the authorities, “because we have made the commitment that 100% of access to the competition sites can be done by public transport”, underlined Clément Beaune at the end of October.
Nearly 15 million spectators and accredited people are expected to attend the events, the vast majority of which will take place in Paris and Île-de-France.
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