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The French Minister of Transport, Elisabeth Borne, confirmed to the newspaper "Le Parisien" the construction of the CDG Express, a fast train to connect Paris to Roissy airport in 20 minutes, ensuring that " this is not to the detriment of daily transport. ""
The CDG Express should therefore theoretically link, as of January 1, 2024 – a few months before the Olympic Games – the East Station, in the center of Paris, Terminal 2 at Roissy Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle The 20-mile journey should take 20 minutes and cost € 24. The current RER B takes about an hour and stops at several stations.
The participation of the means of road transport to reach the airport should rise from 56% today to 44% when the CDG Express is put into service, which will also avoid a cohabitation not always easy between ordinary travelers. and luggage pbadengers in the RER B. [19659004] According to the minister, in an interview with "Le Parisien", a whole series of measures will be taken for the cities on the way. "We have 343 million euros for regeneration works on the RER B roads financed by the CDG Express and 194 million euros for the improvement of the RER B. Certainly, it has more than 500 million euros worth of work to improve the reliability of the RER B. "
In a statement, Valérie Pécresse, president of Ile-de-France Mobilities and the Île-de-France region, encompbading Greater Paris, said that she "was not Convinced of the capabilities of the French SNCF train company, to complete the CDG Express project by 2024 without degrading the traffic conditions of 1.6 million pbadengers on the north axis. "
She says she stays" very attentive to the announcements of the state beginning of April about the project schedule "and" guarantees that the state will provide to the users of line B ".
On December 12, 2018, the board of directors of Mobidades Ile-de-France Mobidades voted unanimously a resolution calling on the state to suspend the work of CDG Express if all the guarantees technical and financial aspects continued to improve. but the region and Île-de-France Mobility say they "are convinced of the importance of direct service Paris-Roissy for the tourist attractiveness of the region and the improvement of transport services in Ile-de-France. -La France."
conditions of carriage in the RER B ".
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