how to get around Paris this Sunday

After a July 14 somewhat disturbed on the road and the Parisian transport, national holiday obliges, the circulation will be again difficult in the capital this Sunday, July 15th. Parisians will have to take precautions to see the game. The traffic of the whole Parisian transport is strongly perturbed for this event.

The installation of the fan-zone on the Champ-de-Mars, as well as questions of security, pushed the RATP to close many subway, bus and tram lines in the day and evening. From 1 pm, Dupleix (line 6), Pbady (line 6) Cambronne (line 6), Ecole Militaire (line 8) and La Motte-Picquet-Grenelle (lines 6, 8 and 10) stations were closed to the public, just like two RER C stations, Champ de Mars – Eiffel Tower and Pont de l'Alma. Station Bir-Hakeim (line 6) was also closed to the public from 16 hours.

Other stations will be affected from 18:40 : Charles de Gaulle-Étoile (lines 1, 2, 6 and RER A), George V (line 1), Franklin D. Roosevelt (lines 1 and 9), Miromesnil (lines 9 and 13), Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau (lines 1 and 13), Kléber (line 6), Boissière (line 6) and Tuileries (line 1). Connections will not be badured because trains will not stop there.

No bus or tram in Paris

From 18 hours, bus traffic will be interrupted in Paris as in the departments of the small crown (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-et-Marne). Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne). The T1, T2, T3b, T5 and T8 tram lines will no longer operate as pus.

This decision was taken "for reasons of security in order to avoid the reproduction of the facts of Tuesday, July 10, during which many people put themselves in danger while climbing on the roof of the buses, causing damage on many vehicles ", explains the RATP.

A vast perimeter without car

On the road and in case victory of the Blues, the traffic will be prohibited in a vast perimeter of the west and the center of Paris, Tuileries until the Porte Maillot while pbading by the Champ-de-Mars and the Invalides.

The objective "is to avoid what we knew in 1998 with an influx of cars" converging towards the Fields, explained the prefect of Police Michel Delpuech.

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