Valérie Pécresse wants to make the “13 historic lines” of the Paris metro accessible

This project is estimated to cost between 15 and 20 billion euros, for an estimated duration of twenty years.

A project called “A metro for all”. By unveiling the transport plan for the Paralympic Games, the president of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, pleaded, on Monday August 26, for a vast project to make the “thirteen historical lines” from the Paris metro, “the black point” accessibility during the competition. The project is estimated to last twenty years and the cost is estimated at between 15 and 20 billion euros.

To estimate this amount, Valérie Pécresse, also president of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), explained that she was relying on studies carried out on line 6, partly above ground, therefore “cheaper to make accessible”The line would cost between 600 and 800 million euros, she said.

“I am ready, and I have said so, (…) to complete this financing plan by making three equal parts, one part Region, one part State, one part City of Paris”said the regional president, acknowledging that there would be “without doubt” of the “technical impossibilities” on some stations, in a Paris “extremely urbanized”.

In Paris intramuros, she detailed, “We have 100% accessibility of buses, but only 25% accessibility of the rail network: metro, tram, RER”. “My proposal is on the table and my hand is extended.”added Valérie Pécresse, also insisting on consultation with residents.

During the Paralympic Games, 100 minibuses will be chartered to take “as close as possible to the Games” people with disabilities and their companions, from eight stations equipped with elevators in particular.