everything you need to know about transport in Paris and the suburbs – Libération

Where do you have to go through to see a skateboarding event in Concorde? How to request and obtain a “Games Pass” to travel by car? “Libération” takes stock of all the adaptations necessary for the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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To install Olympic stadiums in the heart of Paris, as well as to anticipate the flow of spectators, the organizers of the Olympic and Paralympic Games have implemented numerous traffic adaptations in the capital, for motorists but also public transport passengers. . Libération takes stock of everything you need to know about getting around this summer.

How else to get around Paris?

It looks like a remake of a slogan for a mineral water in the 90s that said: “A volcano goes out, a being awakens.” In its Paris 2024 version, it would give: “Olympic stands rise, streets close.” As the infrastructure of the Olympic Games grows, traffic plans become more complicated in the center of the capital. A quick update.

What’s changing in the metro?

Several Paris metro stations – Concorde, Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau and Tuileries, close to the temporary Olympic installations – will ultimately close for less time than announced, but still more than two months.

Who will need a “Games Pass” this summer?

To travel freely during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will be held from July 26 to August 11 and from August 28 to September 8 respectively, motorists must obtain their “games pass”. This will allow them to access the red perimeters set up around the competition sites.

Security zones, QR codes: essential for getting around

Throughout the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, four different security perimeters will have to be distinguished, the most restrictive being the Silt zones, the acronym for Internal Security and the Fight against Terrorism.

How the State got on track before summer

Despite future inconveniences for users and unfulfilled promises, the region is deploying significant resources to adapt the transport offer to record crowds. The infrastructure inherited from the Games could help ease the pain.

Extension of metro line 11, an opening up for Seine-Saint-Denis

Extended by six kilometers, line 11 has welcomed 85,000 additional passengers in brand new trains since mid-June. The objective is to open up the Seine-Saint-Denis department with five new municipalities served: Les Lilas, Bagnolet, Montreuil, Romainville, Noisy-le-Sec and Rosny-sous-Bois.

Line 14 from Paris to Orly, residents of the southern suburbs are “just waiting for that”

The extension of line 14 was inaugurated by Emmanuel Macron, in Saint-Denis-Pleyel, north of Paris, on June 24. But it is in the south of the capital that the greatest transformation will take place: seven new stations will open, including six in Val-de-Marne, with a terminus moved from Olympiades (13th arrondissement) to the airport. ‘Orly. With one million travelers per day in 2025 according to Ile-de-France Mobilités, line 14 will dethrone line 1 and become one of the most used in the world.

Extension of the RER E: a rush to the West in several stages

The extension of the line to Nanterre-La Folie via La Défense should change the lives of many commuters, even if the service will be very reduced to begin with. This is one of the rare transport projects linked to the 2024 Olympics which was delivered on time.

JO and Grand Paris Express: “For residents of working-class neighborhoods, fear arises as soon as we talk about these projects”

In their book Les Naufragés du Grand Paris Express (editions la Découverte), the geographer Anne Clerval and the journalist Laura Wojcik alternate field surveys in the neighborhoods destroyed by this colossal construction site, which often forced the poorest residents to leave, and analyzes on the gentrification that accompanies this “GPE”. They illustrate how this infrastructure inherited from the Olympic Games will not only change the mobility of Ile-de-France residents.