The mayor of Paris judged on the TMC set that the transport to host the Olympic games would not be ready
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, estimated Wednesday evening that “we’re 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 Quotidien program on TMC, the socialist mayor spoke of “two things we’re not going to be ready for“, to know “transportation» et «sheltering homeless people» fixe. «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.
Asked to specify what would not be ready for the Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11) and Paralympic Games (August 28 – September 8), 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 involved too“, she added. Traffic 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 competition sites can be done by public transport», Underlined at the end of October the Minister Delegate in charge of Transport, Clément Beaune.
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.
