This extension comes at the right time, one month before the opening of the Olympic Games. Line 14 is expected to carry one million passengers per day by mid-2025.
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End of the time trial race. The extension of line 14 will welcome its first passengers on Monday June 24, to connect Saint-Denis, north of Paris, to Orly airport, one month before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Emmanuel Macron planned to attend the inauguration, six days before the first round of legislative elections and one month before the Olympic Games which will be held in the capital from July 26 to August 11.
Line 14 will above all be crucial for the smooth running of the Olympic Games since it will serve the athletes’ village, the Stade de France and the aquatic center to the north, unloading lines B and D of the RER and line 13 of the metro. To the south, it will reach Orly airport in 25 minutes from Châtelet, in the center of Paris.
During a visit at the beginning of June, project director Stéphane Garreau mentioned a “link between the historic network and the future Grand Paris Express network” thanks to its connections with lines 15, 16, 17 and 18 during the construction phase. With 28 km long, eight new stations and 11 communities crossed, line 14 will transport one million passengers per day by mid-2025 and will thus become the first “supermetro” in the Paris region.
To respond to the foreseeable explosion in attendance, Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) spent 1.1 billion euros to purchase 72 new trains currently being deployed, around fifty of which will be in service by the Olympics . The extension will have cost 3.5 billion euros. This extension will benefit 260,000 inhabitants south of Paris, in Val-de-Marne and in Essonne, according to IDFM.
On the Orly side, “10% of employees and travelers will immediately abandon their car in favor of the metro” while until now “90% of the platform’s 28,000 employees and 70% of passengers come by individual vehicle”estimates its manager, Groupe ADP, which expects to see transit in the new station “nearly 100,000 passengers per day”.