This should not improve the way Parisians anticipate the 2024 Paris Olympics. Two days after the publication of a survey by Odoxa (conducted for Winamax and RTL) showing that the perception of the Olympic Games “alarm level reached” Among the residents of Ile-de-France, the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, acknowledged on Tuesday, November 14, that road traffic “complicated” in Paris on match days – from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
“The long-awaited traffic plans in Paris will be presented at the end of November, or at the beginning of December at the latest.”announced the minister, speaking as part of the first congress of the Group of Hotels and Restaurants of France (GHR), a few hours after the organization of“a meeting with all stakeholders in the transport sector and the Paris Police Prefect” about the subject. “I will not hide these traffic plans from you (…) will be “hardcore”.entrusted Clément Beaune to the professionals who are waiting for these plans, especially regarding their deliveries.
“It will be complicated to travel through Paris on match days”he admitted, mentioning “exemptions, special rules for professionals”and D’“a consultation phase until early next year”. This is the first time that the minister has raised in this way the issue of traffic, which has been worrying Parisians since the designation of Paris as a host city in 2017. The survey published on Sunday by the Odoxa polling institute shows that the distrust towards Ile-de-France residents regarding the Games, which now reaches 44% (compared to 22% two years ago), mainly concerns the issue of transport: 81% of Ile-de-France residents , and 66% of French people, place this topic at the top of their interest in the run-up to the Olympic Games.
“Make sure you have less unnecessary travel”
In total, some 185 kilometers of tracks, reserved exclusively for athletes and accredited persons, are planned for the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. “These lanes will have an impact on the rest of the traffic”recognized the mobility coordinator for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Florent Bardon, during a webinar for freight professionals at the beginning of this year.
The Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management also announced this “an information campaign (…) about preparing for the Games, how we can ensure that we have less unnecessary travel during the Games »for’“explain what happens during the Games: the plans, the exemptions, those who are entitled to travel”. To professionals from the hotel sector, Clément Beaune clarified that a ” special attention ” would be worn “in exemptions and in upstream communication”, for professionals “and all those who provide for you”.
Our selection of articles about the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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- The issue of the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes
The International Paralympic Committee is changing course and opening the door to Russian athletes
The government is stepping on the accelerator to close the accessibility gap
Making physical and sporting activities accessible to everyone with the ‘Inclusive Club’ programme
Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony: Government is leaning towards around 300,000 spectators with free admission
Efforts to train private security officers should not be enough to ensure attendance at the Games
Paris 2024: the deployment of the military to guarantee the security of locations is planned from 2019
The Games organizer uses its reserves to ensure its budget is balanced
What the state and communities finance for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
- The preparation of French athletes
In Saint-Malo, French athletics mobilizes in the final Olympic straight
Bercy expects 138 Olympic and Paralympic medalists
Florent Manaudou: “We will achieve good results at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris because we are at home, but we are not a sporting country”
In Tahiti, the Olympic Games no longer know which wave to surf
Senators are concerned about the “risks” on the completion of certain Olympic works
Making the Seine swimmable by 2024, the enormous challenge that must be tackled before the Olympic Games in Paris
Opening of RATP buses for matches in Paris: the spread of the timetable until the end of 2026 approved by the Senate
The Olympic Games will mobilize 181,000 jobs, but we still need to fill them
- Seine-Saint-Denis and the Games
Seine-Saint-Denis, in the heart of the Paralympic marathon and paracycling
“I have a feeling I’m going to see a lot of things I’ve never seen before, even from the street”
- Ongoing legal investigations
Winter Games 2030 and 2034: a framework for Paris 2024 subject to complaint
A year before the Olympic Games, the specter of the business world hovers over Paris 2024
- The Olympic torch relay
The Paris route of the torch relay was unveiled against a backdrop of social tensions
- Environmental problems
Olympic flying taxis are deemed too noisy and greedy by the Environment Authority
The difficult challenge of the ‘green’ Olympic Games
- The social issues that the Games highlight
School sports are still looking for the right formula
Sports at school and beyond: in Aulnay-sous-Bois, handball motivates teenage girls
In Paris, the movement of second-hand booksellers is suspended “to test”
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games accelerate the transformation of Northeast Paris
- The Games are not just Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis
Communities that want to share in the “Olympic effect” with preparation centers for the Games
In Espalion, on the occasion of the Olympic Games, “we want to talk about our city, make it known”
“They came to see meumeus, they must have seen athletes,” the Verdun fair at the time of the Games
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