2023-06-30 18:09:03
On line 15 south of the Grand Paris Express transport project, in Cachan (Val-de-Marne), south of Paris, July 23, 2020. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
It is the RATP which should operate the future line 15 of the Grand Paris Express from 2025, for at least six years. Friday, June 30, the experts of Ile-de-France-Mobilities (IDFM), the organizing authority for transport in the region, chaired by Valérie Pécresse, issued an opinion in which they recommend entrusting the first portion of this line , the “15 south”, to a consortium led by RATP Dev, a subsidiary of the management, with Alstom and the Singaporean transport company Comfort del Gro. IDFM’s Board of Directors will make its final decision on July 18.
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No question of popping the champagne before this date or making the slightest comment, but Jean Castex, the CEO of the RATP, is relieved. Line 15 is strategic in his eyes: it will go around Paris (Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis) like a second ring road on rails, passing through Nanterre, La Défense, Stade of France, Bondy, Val-de-Fontenay, Nogent-Le-Perreux, Créteil, Villejuif, Clamart and Rueil.
This is the line that has the most connections with those already operated by the RATP. Currently under construction, the southern part of this section represents 33 kilometers of metro, from Pont-de-Sèvres to Noisy-Champs. The RATP, which already operates 206 kilometers of metro, is also extending lines 4, 11, 12 and 14, for a total of 27 kilometers.
Management and maintenance
RATP Dev had only one candidate facing it: Keolis, the SNCF subsidiary. It has just won the new lines 16 (from Saint-Denis-Pleyel to Noisy-Champs) and 17 (from Saint-Denis-Pleyel to Mesnil-Amelot via Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport), which will be put into service from October 2026, as well as the management of the Saint-Denis-Pleyel station which will be operational for D0 Paris 2024.
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If the RATP will no longer be the only company to run Parisian metros, it is one of its RATP Infra subsidiaries that manages and maintains all of the infrastructure (rails and signaling) of the Grand Paris Express. .
IDFM has yet to designate the operator of the future line 18, which will link Orly airport, Massy-Palaiseau and Versailles in the south of the region. RATP and SNCF, via Keolis, will also be competing to win the Sytral contract for public transport in Lyon, which expires at the end of 2024. For thirty years, it has been in the hands of Keolis.
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