transport remains “the big point of concern”, considers PCF deputy Stéphane Peu

“From an infrastructure point of view, yes, it will be delivered on time” but the transport “remain the big point of concern” of the 2024 Olympic Games, notes Tuesday March 14 on franceinfo Stéphane Peu, Communist deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis in charge of the information mission on the fallout from the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He deplores “insufficient coordination” between the various players in the sector, SNCF, RATP, the Île-de-France region and the State.

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“The Minister of Transport has appointed an interministerial delegate so I hope that will improve things”continues Stéphane Peu, denouncing a situation “already catastrophic, without the Games”, in the transport of the region. According to him, it will be necessary to improve this “degraded situation” so that she is able “to assume around 20% additional traffic, in the middle of August, on public transport” at the time of the Games.

“We have never had so few buses, so few metros, and so many irregularities on the RER than at the moment.”

Stéphane Peu, PCF MP

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“The Paris candidacy was betting on public transport. You have to be there!”, launches the communist deputy. Stéphane Peu proposes, “among others”of “raise the prospect of the opening of Parisian buses to competition at the end of 2024”which according to him “degrades the conditions of employment at the RATP”. “Whether we think it’s a good or a bad thing, with my co-rapporteur, we have a different opinion on the subject, but we are unanimous in saying that this should not be done at the end of 2024”, he explains. Stéphane Peu calls for “postpone” the opening to competition for at least 4 years so that the president of the RATP and the employees of the transport authority can fully mobilize “around a good reception of the 2024 Olympics”.