Budget travelers who use Flixbus and other long-distance coaches, or Blablacar if you carpool, vacation or weekend departures looked a little more complicated after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The reason? The announced closure of the famous Paris bus station, located in Bercy, where road traffic is heavy at all hours of the day and night. The first deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, spoke to AFP about the"massification of coach traffic", "incivilities" and poor management by the operators on site, making the space unliveable and dirty.
To compensate for this future closure, new parking lots and bus stations are to be built in the Ile-de-France region, outside the capital, which will be smaller and more accessible to the general population. The Bercy station will not disappear altogether, however, as it will only accommodate tourist coaches, which is why it was built in the first place in 1996, to"relieve the pressure on central Paris".
If Bercy is to cease hosting buses after the Olympic Games, it will have to wait a little longer, as the French transport regulator (Autorité de Régulation des Transports) considers a 12-month delay from the time the decision is taken to be"absolutely incompressible". In its view, a hasty closure of Bercy"would adversely affect the market". But where will these new bus stations open in a few months' time?
Flixbus had asked that the future station be accessible by metro. We can think of Marne-la-Vallée, Porte Maillot or Seine-Saint-Denis, which is starting to be better and better served. According to one report, it would be better to create a series of stations to create a network. Answer in 2025!
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