2023-11-23 16:19:55
On “Quotidien”, the mayor of Paris estimated Wednesday evening, November 22, that “we are not going to be ready” for the management of public transport and the homeless, in the capital, at the time of the 2024 Olympic Games, and pointing the finger at the responsibility of the government and the region.
Or how to add fuel to the fire. On set the show Daily from TMC on Wednesday November 22, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo was questioned regarding the “most delayed” projects for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (from July 26 to August 11) and the Paralympic Games (August 28-September 8). The former socialist presidential candidate then spoke of “two things for which we are not going to be ready”, namely “transport” and “sheltering people without a fixed address”.
Implicitly targeting the responsibility of the region – which has authority over Ile-de-France transport – and of “the government a little too”, it attracted criticism and sarcasm from the Minister Delegate in charge of Transport, Clément Beaune, and from the president (LR) from the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse.
“We are still in difficulty, already, in daily transport, and we cannot catch up with the level […] punctuality, comfort for Parisians,” noted Anne Hidalgo, referring to “places where transport will not be ready because there will not be the sufficient number of trains and frequency”. Not ready either, the future RER E station Porte Maillot. “But we do all this together, so I feel concerned too,” she added.
Not enough to ease tensions around the issue of the successful holding of the Olympics. In reaction, Clément Beaune posted a mocking meme on X (ex-Twitter) once morest the mayor of Paris, who according to him prefers to “try to create a buzz on Quotidien” rather than “participate in the eight strategic committees on transport to prepare” the Games. Enough to make the supporters of the PS mayor react on the platform, like the socialist senator of the 10th arrondissement, Rémi Féraud, who pointed out the minister’s lack of height. Or the PS mayor of the 18th arrondissement, Eric Lejoindrein the same tone: “Even when we don’t expect anything from the government, we still manage to be surprised – and shocked – by the level!”
The mobility challenge
“We will be ready,” reacted on Valérie Pécresse this Thursday morning, targeted by the exit of Anne Hidalgo. The day before, the president of the Republicans of the Ile-de-France region had tackled the mayor of the capital following the announcement of the project to limit the Paris ring road to 50km/h. Quoted by AFP, Valérie Pécresse quipped by affirming that “we would have appreciated the presence of Anne Hidalgo on the mobility committees of the Olympic and Paralympic Games if she has proposals to make on transport”, adding: “Thanks to her to solve the problem of traffic jams in Paris to allow the circulation of buses!”
Mobility in the Paris region during the Olympic and Paralympic Games constitutes a challenge for the authorities, “because we have made the commitment that 100% of access to the competition sites can be done by public transport”, underlined Clément Beaune at the end of October. Nearly 15 million spectators and accredited people are expected to attend the events, the vast majority of which will take place in Paris and Ile-de-France.
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