Geoffrey Branger, edited by Ophélie Artaud 10:38 a.m., January 07, 2023

The Paris 2024 Olympics are fast approaching and the French capital is preparing.

If the ticket office is open and the structures should be ready in time, doubt remains on the question of transport.

"Things are progressing well," assured the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, at the microphone of Europe 1.

2023, the last year before the sporting event awaited by France and the whole world: the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Guest of Europe 1 this Saturday morning, the Minister of Sports mentioned the ticket office already open to the draw and soon for sale.

This is a moment when things become tangible for Amélie Oudéa-Castéra: a year and a half before the opening ceremony, the structures to accommodate the athletes and the competitions should be ready on time.

But on the transport side, it is more uncertain.

For the moment, no service provider to transport the accredited

According to the Société du Grand Paris, the work to extend metro line 14, which should link Orly airport to Saint-Denis, is on the right track.

Problem: The schedule is very tight.

The delivery is scheduled just before the start of the games and this line is necessary since it will notably make it possible to simplify travel between the structures of the Olympic Games for tourists.

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But it's not just work that's problematic.

Île-de-France Mobilités, the regional transport authority in the Ile-de-France region, has not yet found any service provider to transport the 200,000 accredited people.

We are talking about athletes, members of federations, the press or even organizers.

It is all the same to create an ephemeral transport network about as important as that of a city like Lyon.

For the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa Castera, there is no reason to worry.

"We will find the right carriers for all accredited people. We have to build a certain amount of infrastructure and ensure that there are no bottlenecks in all traffic, whether for the accredited but more broadly for all French people. By really focusing on all the elements at our disposal, including dedicated shuttle services, accessible taxis. And things are progressing well, "assured the minister at the microphone from Europe 1.

flying taxis

For its part, Île-de-France Mobilités explains that transport for Ile-de-France residents during this period risks being partly disrupted, particularly with regard to bus lines. 

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Beyond land transport, for these Games, we could fly over Paris.

This will undoubtedly be one of the attractions of these Olympic Games: the flying taxis.

There should be about ten of them which will make two or three flights per hour, with a transport capacity of four people.

Two overhead lines are planned, one between Paris and Versailles, the other will link Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget airports to a barge on the Seine, at the level of the Quai d'Austerlitz.