Delay of more than one year for the commissioning of RER B

2023-09-26T18:02:50.328Z

Highlights: Delay of more than one year for the commissioning of RER B. The new generation trainsets, designed by Alstom and CAF, will not enter service before 2027. At best. Thirteen months later than expected. "This line is experiencing an upsurge in user complaints," adds Valérie Pécresse, president of the region and Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the manager and financier of Parisian transport.

The new generation trainsets, designed by Alstom and CAF, will not enter service before 2027.

Still a little, if not a lot, of patience! The one million passengers who mark the RER B every day will not see the commissioning of the new trains of this line, known for these incidents and multiple delays, before early 2027. At best. Thirteen months later than expected.

Mine of bad days, visibly exasperated, Valérie Pécresse, president of the region and Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the manager and financier of Parisian transport, announced this delay at the end of a board meeting of IDFM on Tuesday. "The RER B is the sick line of public transport in the Paris region with a deterioration in the quality of service since 2015. This line is experiencing an upsurge in user complaints," adds Valérie Pécresse.

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Last summer, an audit conducted in consultation between all stakeholders - Alstom and Spain's CAF, the designers of the new trains, as well as RATP, SNCF and IDFM - identified the causes of this delay. It is due to...

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Source: lefigaro

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