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The general interest of the CDG Express shuttle called into question

2020-11-11T21:29:38.580Z


According to the administrative court, the growth in traffic, weighed down by the Covid crisis, is uncertain.


The CDG Express, this fast rail line between CDG airport and Gare de l'Est, is it or not a project of general interest?

Augustin de Romanet, CEO of ADP group (Aéroports de Paris), is convinced of this.

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The manager, who has fought since his arrival at the head of the company for this 32-kilometer link to see the light of day after years of procrastination, still today does not hesitate to call it

“green”.

"It will unclog the highways of thousands of taxis which shuttle between the capital and the airport," he

recalls.

However, it is for environmental reasons that the administrative court of Montreuil on Monday canceled the exemption from the environmental code to build this line supposed to transport 24,000 passengers per day.

It is the major public interest of the project that justified its being able to cross areas where protected species live.

The overall cost of the project is around 1.8 billion euros

Today, the administrative court finds that airport passengers are no longer at

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Source: lefigaro

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