Olympic Games-2024: shuttles, lines, alternative routes... The Ile-de-France transport plan clarified

Europe 1 with AFP 4:38 p.m., March 25, 2024

Last kilometer shuttles or for disabled people, strengthening of the most popular lines, application to find the best route... The president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse detailed her transport plan for the Olympic Games on Monday ( July 26 - August 11). The “Paris Public Transport 2024” application, which will be launched in May in six languages, will be able to measure “the real-time distribution of spectators” in the capital in order to give the traveler the best route, indicates the region.

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Make way for alternate routes, therefore: regular users must “remove their automatic transport systems, the routes we give you are the right ones”, insisted Valérie Pécresse, who is also president of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) , during a press conference. The president had justified the establishment of a special Olympic metro ticket price of 4 euros by the need to increase the frequency of the lines by 15%: the increase will reach 23% for eight lines serving the Olympic sites and 60 to 70% for three particularly busy lines (metro 9, RER A and RER C).

“One bus per minute” and per site

To ensure this additional offer, the recruitment of 300 drivers is nearing completion, indicated IDFM. To serve sites far from stations (Roland-Garros, Parc des Princes, Versailles, St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Vaires-sur-Marne), 300 buses, or “one bus per minute” and per site, will be deployed, detailed Valérie Pécresse. These shuttles will be accessible free of charge. Another type of shuttle, 150 in all, will be set up to transport disabled people and their companions from the eight Parisian stations to the entrance to the sites.

This service will be available by reservation and for a "very low price of 4 euros, so that we do not have no-shows, that is to say people who book and do not come", explained the regional president. Transport will be open all night on August 10 for the “marathon for all”, intended for amateurs, between Paris and Versailles. Around 2,000 additional electric bikes in the region, Véligo, will be available for a one or two-month subscription at 53.90 euros, compared to the usual 40 euros over six months.

Returning to the controversial Olympic pricing, Valérie Pécresse affirmed that the price of a single ticket had been set at 4 euros “so that no one buys them” and thus avoid “embolisms at the ticket counters”. Ile-de-France residents without a subscription “just have to subscribe to Liberté+, the online post-payment service”, to pay “at the best rate, 1.73 euros, the following month”, he said. -she advised.

The Organizing Committee (Cojo) asked the region to financially cover the travel of the 200,000 accredited people (athletes, officials, journalists, etc.), i.e. a budget of just under 10 million euros, indicated the entourage of Valérie Pécresse to AFP, confirming information from Le

. The Cojo can "optimize as much as possible" its revenues, having "still sponsors to go to work" and "places to sell", she estimated, questioned on this subject by AFP.