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RER E site: an information mission launched by the regional council

2021-11-17T21:46:07.386Z


The Île-de-France regional council decided on Wednesday to set up an information mission on the additional costs of the RER E extension project, ...


The Ile-de-France regional council decided on Wednesday to set up an information mission on the additional costs of the RER E extension project, denounced by the right-wing president Valérie Pécresse, responding to a request from the opposition of left.

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The Éole site

"will have to go to the end"

despite a budget overrun of 1.7 billion euros, said Stéphane Beaudet.

The vice-president of the region in charge of transport insisted on the need

"to audit the operation of the SNCF Réseau operator"

on

"industrial and technical" issues in

order to understand the reasons for this budget overrun.

The mission will begin

"at the end of the year, or at the beginning of January"

and will last six months, and should allow

"to nourish the discussions around the financing of this project"

.

Threat of abandonment of work

SNCF Réseau

"takes pride in building the most interconnected line with Éole, but at what price?"

exclaimed Jean-Philippe Luce, UDI regional advisor. This mission is almost a consensus within the assembly, where many elected officials claim the

"intolerable" nature

of a threat of abandonment of the work by the operator of the site in the event of lack of funding. The group of the presidential majority voted against, Aurélie Taquillain estimating that

"the Ile-de-France residents are waiting for a return from the State"

which

"is already working"

on the subject. "

The financial danger is great, but it is even greater danger of seeing the project get bogged down"

, insisted the elected PCF Fabien Guillaud-Bataille.

For Maxime des Gayets, head of the PS and related group,

“other projects could not be funded in the face of such overruns”

.

Significant additional costs had already been announced in early 2021, in the order of 640 million euros.

SNCF Réseau expected new additional costs linked to the health crisis.

Often called Éole, the RER E currently connects Chelles and Tournan (Seine-et-Marne), in the eastern suburbs, to Saint-Lazare station in Paris.

The aim is to extend it to Nanterre in mid-2023, then to Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) in a second step.

In particular, it must be financed by the Société du Grand Paris (1.5 billion) and the region (1.1 billion).

Source: lefigaro

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