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All the elected officials and the leaders of the SNCF present at the baptism of Eole tunneler this Wednesday morning have recalled. The priority objective of the extension of Eole to the west, from Saint-Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie, is to desaturate line A of the RER, "the busiest and the most saturated in Europe" according to Alain Krakovitch, the general manager SNCF Transilien.
The commissioning of the RER E to the west, in 2022 to Nanterre and in 2024 to Mantes, must "reduce by 15% the number of pbadengers on the RER A, which carries 1.2 million pbadengers a day" said Valérie Pécresse, president (LR) of the region and Ile-de-France Mobilités.
The Eole line will benefit from a brand new French rolling stock, "built by Alstom and Bombardier and which will first circulate on the RER D", said Valérie Pécresse. 130 trains of this RER New Generation are thus intended for the RER E.