You have to show a little imagination.
In four years, if all goes without a hitch, the first MI20 trains, which will transport the 900,000 RER B users, should be delivered by the Alstom-Bombardier / CAF consortium.
The call for tenders, amounting to 2.56 billion euros, was awarded and then confirmed last April, after many twists and turns.
Each train, 104 m long, will have 1,070 seats, 20% more than the rolling stock today. Ultimately, these 146 new generation trainsets, at two levels, which will include video surveillance, USB sockets and air conditioning, will considerably improve the comfort of users of this dilapidated line, the victim of numerous malfunctions, such as Monday, where the RER B was interrupted for 8 hours between Gare du Nord and Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis).
As for interior and exterior design, Île-de-France Mobilités had organized a vote in July, to choose one of the three possible “liveries”. 18,000 voters took part. Their choice fell on the "front end which smiles", where "the softness and the roundness of its forms translate an elegant train, with a welcoming, comfortable and attentive spirit", estimates IDFM.
As for the interior of the future RER B, “the seats are individual islands.
The upper parts of the backrests and the ends of the seats are separated in order to preserve individuality in a collective space.
The space between files offers more transparency and light through the train, for a feeling of increased well-being and security, details IDFM.
Lighting takes a dynamic and digital approach, in a spirit of modernity assumed ”.
The interior of the future trains of the RER B, the MI20.
IDFM
Before seeing these modern trains in circulation, major infrastructure work is necessary: platform height, electrical power supply reinforcements, but also maintenance workshops, with the creation of a new center in Mitry and the adaptation of the existing site in Massy.
