This should not improve the way in which Parisians anticipate the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (OG). Two days after the publication of a survey by Odoxa (carried out for Winamax and RTL) which observes that the perception of the Olympic Games “reaches alert level” among Ile-de-France residents, the Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, recognized, Tuesday, November 14, that road traffic would be “complicated” in Paris on competition days – from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
“By the end of November, at the very beginning of December at the latest, the long-awaited traffic plans in Paris will be presented”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 holding of“a meeting with all transport stakeholders and the Paris police prefect” on the subject. “I will not hide from you that these traffic plans (…) will be “hardcore”Clément Beaune confided to the professionals, who are waiting for these plans, particularly regarding their deliveries.
“On competition days, it will be complicated to get around Paris”he admitted, mentioning “exemptions, special rules for professionals”and D’“a consultation phase until the beginning of next year”. This is the first time that the minister has mentioned the issue of traffic in this way, which has concerned Parisians since the designation of Paris as host city in 2017. In the survey published on Sunday by the Odoxa polling institute, the distrust of Ile-de-France residents regarding the Games, which now reaches 44% (compared to 22% two years ago), concerns above all the question of transport: 81% of Ile-de-France residents, and 66% of French people, place this subject at the top of their concerns, ahead of the Olympics.
“Make sure you have a little less unnecessary travel”
In total, some 185 kilometers of lanes 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 at the start of the year the mobility coordinator for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Florent Bardon, during a webinar aimed at freight professionals.
The Minister of Transport also announced “an information campaign (…) on anticipation of the Games, how to ensure that we have a little less unnecessary travel during the Games »for’“explain what happens during the Games: the plans, the exemptions, those who have the right to travel”. Facing hotel industry professionals, Clément Beaune clarified that a ” particular attention ” would be worn “in exemptions, and in upstream communication”, for professionals “and all those who supply you”.
Our selection of articles on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Find all our content on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games:
- The question of the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes
The International Paralympic Committee changes course and opens the door to Russian athletes
The government steps on the accelerator to close the accessibility gap
Making physical and sporting activities accessible to all with the “Inclusive Club” program
Paris 2024 opening ceremony: public authorities are leaning towards around 300,000 spectators with free access
Efforts to train private security agents should not be enough to be there for the Games
Paris 2024: the use of the army to ensure the security of sites has been planned from 2019
The organizer of the Games draws on 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 anticipates 138 Olympic and Paralympic medalists
Florent Manaudou: “At the 2024 Paris Olympics, we will have good results because we are at home, but we are not a sports country”
In Tahiti, the Olympic Games no longer know which wave to surf
Senators are concerned about the “risks weighing” on the delivery of certain Olympic works
Making the Seine swimmable by 2024, the immense challenge to take on before the Paris Olympics
Opening of RATP buses to competition in Paris: the spread of the timetable until the end of 2026 approved by the Senate
The Olympics will mobilize 181,000 jobs, but we still have to fill them
- Seine-Saint-Denis and the Games
Seine-Saint-Denis, at the heart of the Paralympic marathon and para-cycling
“I feel like I’m going to see a lot of things that I’ve never seen, even from the street”
- Ongoing legal investigations
Winter Games 2030 and 2034: a Paris 2024 framework targeted by a complaint
One year before the Olympics, the specter of business hovers over Paris 2024
- The Olympic Torch Relay
Against a backdrop of social tensions, the Parisian route of the torch relay revealed
- Environmental issues
Olympic flying taxis deemed too noisy and too greedy by the Environmental Authority
The difficult challenge of the “green” Olympic Games
- The societal issues that the Games highlight
School sport is still looking for the right formula
Sport at school and outside: in Aulnay-sous-Bois, handball motivates teenage girls
In Paris, the movement of second-hand booksellers suspended from “tests”
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games accelerate the transformation of North-East Paris
- The Games are not just Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis
Communities seeking a share of the “Olympics effect” with Games preparation centers
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 will have seen athletes”, the Verdun Fair at the time of the Games
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