2023-08-09 22:37:51
The work on the RER B consists of installing reversal tracks north of Paris, in order to maintain traffic in the event of a traffic cut on certain sections of the line. PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP
Users of the northern section of RER B are asked to postpone their journeys from Saturday August 12 to Monday August 14 due to the closure of the line for modernization works.
During these three days, “RER B traffic will be completely interrupted on the northern axis of the line in both directions from Gare du Nord to Mitry and between Paris-Gare du Nord and Aulnay-sous-Bois in the direction of Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport »recall, Wednesday August 9, in a press release the SNCF, the prefecture of Paris and Ile-de-France and Ile-de-France Mobilités, the transport organizing authority.
“This interruption will take place on the 14th, for the first time on a working day, on a segment marked by high attendance, which gives it an exceptional character”they insist.
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More than six hundred buses mobilized
To compensate for the lack of trains, “the existing offer of regular buses will be reinforced” and more than six hundred buses and a thousand drivers will be mobilized to serve the closed RER stations. Carpooling will also be free. for Ile-de-France residents.
But that will not be enough, hence the appeal to users to postpone their trips. “We can have up to 200,000 travelers taking this line” a Monday eve of August 15, explained in May the regional prefect, Marc Guillaume. “However, getting 200,000 passengers to travel by substitute bus is not possible”he added.
The Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, spoke at the beginning of August on the social network X (formerly Twitter) to ask all users who can to use teleworking, carpooling or to postpone their trips.
The works consist of installing reversal tracks north of Paris, in order to maintain traffic in the event of a traffic cut on certain sections of the line.
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