While many French people are eagerly awaiting the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to attend this beautiful event at home and cheer on their athletes, not all Ile-de-France residents are of the same opinion, directly impacted by the competition. In addition to the attestations that will be required to travel to certain venues in Paris, residents of the Ile-de-France region are worried about the repercussions on everyday public transport. After all, many Parisians will continue to work over the summer period, despite Valérie Pécresse's request to stay at home.
An"Olympic confinement" was mentioned by Le Canard Enchainé, quickly denied by the region's prefect Marc Guillaume. However, the latter is concerned about the risk of bottlenecks on certain metro and RER lines, and believes that"the transport plan only allows spectators to be transported if all other travellers are dissuaded or almost dissuaded". In other words, the people of Ile-de-France who usually travel across the region to work would have to stay put and telecommute, which is obviously not possible for all trades.
With between 500,000 and 1 million spectators to be transported to the venues every day during the Olympic period, and Parisians remaining in the area, the metro and RER systems are likely to saturate very quickly, and could become dangerous to use. However, Bernard Gobitz, vice-president of the Fédération Nationale des Associations d'Usagers des Transports d'Île-de-France, tells France 3 that "localresidents who will be working during this period must be able to continue to travel properly."
And it's not just the Olympics that pose a problem, since the Paralympics will take place during the back-to-school period, with the risk of a traffic crunch both on the roads and on public transport. There are still a few months to find a solution before the deadline, when transport is already overcrowded in normal times, since the Covid period.
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Paris 2024 Olympics: metro stations closed in some areas of the capital
