The president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse asked Tuesday that public transport operators can be equipped with masks, saying she is ready to make them available to companies if they do not have them or to help them to get it. " There is an urgent need to be able to equip the agents who are in contact with the public, including of course the agents of the transport companies ," explained Ms. Pécresse to AFP, recalling that " without transport, the essential services of our country do not will work more . "
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" I asked the government to be able to equip them, " explained the elected representative (Libres!), Who is also the president of Ile-de-France Mobilités, the regional transport authority. " If the government gives this authorization, the region is ready to help transport companies obtain them." (...) I proposed that the region participate and provide the masks that would be missing so that we can quickly equip all the agents of the transport companies who are in contact with the public, "she added.
Public transport operators in the region - SNCF, RATP, Transdev, Keolis and the smallest companies in the Optile network of large suburban buses - could in particular order masks through the regional purchasing center. The Ile-de-France region, which ordered 30 million masks, " has received 6 million for two weeks ", half of which was distributed to caregivers and nursing homes and the other half " was given to mayors and departments to operate all local public services , "noted Ms. Pécresse. " We will continue to receive them regularly, and therefore I can devote part of the masks that I will receive to the equipment of basic public services ", including transport and also the police , -she says.
