The government has decided to postpone railway works near Paris in May to avoid disrupting the holding of an Indochina concert, the Ministry of Transport said on Monday, confirming information from
Le Monde
.
These modernization works are in progress on the RER B, one of the busiest railway lines in Europe and linking the southern and northern suburbs of Paris.
They result in traffic interruptions in the evening or on certain weekends.
But the service was maintained on Saturday May 21 in order to facilitate the arrival and departure of spectators of the rock group at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, confirmed to AFP on Monday the office of the Minister Delegate for Transport, Jean- Baptist Djebbari.
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The work will be
“rescheduled with other work”
and
this postponement will be
“
at no additional cost, contrary to what the article in
Le Monde
states ”
, according to the same source.
The newspaper mentioned
“several hundred thousand euros”
of overrun.
The minister's office indicated that it had
"requested the postponement of the work, after verifying that it had no impact on the CDG Express or RER D timetable"
.
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The completion of the CDG Express, a fast train supposed to link Paris to Roissy - Charles-de-Gaulle airport, was postponed last year to the end of 2026. Contacted on Monday by AFP, neither the project manager of the works SNCF Réseau, nor the organizing authority Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) reacted immediately.
