2023-06-05 18:07:57
« I have 330 days left! It’s a race once morest time that started Mathieu Mallet, deputy project director of the Saint-Denis-Pleyel station. The future terminus of line 14 of the Paris metro is essential equipment for the Olympic Games because it is located very close to the Olympic village and the Stade de France. It is difficult for the moment to imagine that it will be possible in a year to take this automatic and fast metro to reach Orly airport in 40 minutes, 27 km to the south, following having crossed all of Paris.
But the further down we go in the construction site of this huge station designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, which will also host lines 16 and 17 at the end of 2026, and 15 in the early 2030s, the more it looks like something. At level -4, 26 meters underground, the platforms of line 14 already have their facades where the direction “Orly Airport” is indicated, and the first test train is expected there in mid-July.
Until the Games, the players in the extension of line 14 will tell AFP how they intend to keep a schedule that leaves no room for error. The first of them, Mathieu Mallet, who coordinates the Saint-Denis-Pleyel site for the Société du Grand Paris (SGP), does not seem particularly worried for the moment… “Civil engineering when it is raw, it’s super pretty”, he says in front of the entrance to the tunnel of the future line 15, perfectly circular. “I have been working here for a little over 20 months. The SGP has created a dedicated department responsible for opening the Saint-Denis-Pleyel station for the Olympic Games.
« Currently, there are between 400 and 450 companions a day working on the siteexplains Mathieu Mallet, coordinator of the Saint-Denis-Pleyel site for the Société du Grand Paris (SGP). The civil engineering must be completely finished in the coming weeks. We are on a joint project management with the RATP for the opening in 2024. We, at the SGP, are in charge of the opening of the establishment open to the public, the station, and the RATP is responsible for bring the train from the current terminus of the town hall of Saint-Ouen, an extension of 600 meters. We go into the +red zone+ in July. With the passage of a first train for testing by the RATP in mid-July. It will eventually be the largest station in the Grand Paris Express network, with more than 250,000 passengers per day. ».
No worries
The boss of the site is not worried. ” We have defined a number of technical milestones that we must meet every weekhe continues. I still have 150 until the Olympics and we do a weekly report with the management board of the SGP to ensure that the milestones are met. Of course, not everything happens as in a book, so there are milestones that are off, but at that time, the objective is to find solutions to readjust the entire schedule and always be on time. ‘hour. So far so good ».
There are still 330 days left before the date of passage of the safety commission, at the end of April 2024. This must authorize the opening of the station to the public. ” It may sound worrying, but there is quite a bit to do, says Mathieu Mallet. If you come back in a month, it will have already changed a lot! For the Olympic Games, the objective is to open the forecourt, the station and the roads as well, a street which will surround the station and which will be an Olympic road for the passage of athletes during the Olympic Games”.
The work of the coordinator is to finalize all of the arrangements for the station. ” Except line 15 which will be closed by a palisadesays the expert. But line 16/17 will be finished. It should be finished! This is far from being the case now, there are still a lot of things, but the idea is that in a year, we will have finalized the floor, the walls, the ceilings, all the technical equipment, and that the tests can be done for an opening at the end of 2026”. Only businesses will not be ready for summer 2024.
On the surface, above the station, will emerge a building more than 28 meters high. ” It’s a cultural facility that will be around 5,000 square meters, but it won’t be open for the Games, confides Mathieu Mallet. Inside, it will be bare spaces, not accessible, which will be fitted out by a future lessor at the end of 2024, beginning of 2025. But externally, it will be completely finished. Another project, a footbridge which will connect the station to the RER D on the other side of the tracks: it is an “JO work” which will be partially open for the Olympic Games, with only the pedestrian and bicycle part » (AFP)
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