The Société du Grand Paris, responsible for building the Greater Paris metro, should see its competences expanded throughout the France and be renamed "Société des Grands Projets", according to a bill on metropolitan RER adopted Tuesday evening in committee at the National Assembly. The bill presented by the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône Jean-Marc Zulesi (Renaissance) aims to organize the establishment of metropolitan RER, officially renamed "metropolitan regional express services" (SERM) and presented as "a multimodal offer of public public public transport services that is based on a strengthening of rail service".
At least ten metropolitan regional express services should be established within ten years of the promulgation of the law, according to the objective of the text adopted by the Assembly's Committee on Sustainable Development, chaired by Mr. Zulesi. In this context, the Société du Grand Paris (SGP), renamed Société des Grands Projets, should be able to leave its domain of origin to "participate in the design and project management of the infrastructures necessary for the realization of metropolitan regional express services". The SGP could take care of new infrastructure, but also lines on which no train has run for five years, according to an amendment also adopted on Tuesday. The bill is due to be considered in public session in the Assembly on 12 June.
