“It will be the first Olympic structure that we will see when arriving from Roissy airport.
"The organizers of the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 do not want to miss the aesthetics of this introduction, as stressed by Augustin Tran Van Chau, director of the" media cluster "project for the Solideo, the delivery company of Olympic books .
The footbridge which will serve as an urban marker will fly 125 meters (it will measure 400 meters in total) over the A1 motorway, connecting Le Bourget, Dugny and La Courneuve.
Eight traffic lanes tear apart these three neighboring municipalities.
They are impassable for the inhabitants if they are not in a car or on a bus.
Reserved for pedestrians and cyclists, the hyphen will be located at the back of the Bourget sports park, by rue de l'Égalité, after part of the current tennis courts, which will soon be moved and replaced by the lawn. of honor of the football stadium.
Here is the 2,024-meter route around the pedestrian and cyclist bridge that will cross the A1 and link Le Bourget, Dugny and La Courneuve.
From there, the footbridge will join what is still the rear of the Chimirec group.
The objective is also to bring together the future Olympic venues of the media village: the Essences field, where the shooting events will take place, the Vents area where the media will be gathered, the sports park where climbers will compete. .
To do this, the Solideo has imagined a course that will be… 2,024 meters, of course!
"Make this itinerary a signature in aerial view"
"It was by measuring this symbolic course that I realized that it was 2.02 km", reports Augustin Tran Van Chau.
A distance very close to the famous 2,024 meters.
“We wondered how to make this route a signature in aerial view,” he adds.
From the mainland, the question is how to bring the concept to life, through signage, urban and artistic furniture, lighting, coating ... The consultation is launched and the answers will be provided concretely by the control of works in charge of public spaces on the cluster.
The first visuals of the footbridge have just been unveiled by the Solideo and show a structure designed in Douglas pines from the Morvan, supported by concrete piers.
The work represents an investment of 14 million euros, including 10 million financed by the Solideo.
While work on the complete transformation of the Le Bourget sports park has already started, as part of the climbing competitions that will take place there, work on the structure will begin in summer 2022, for delivery before the Games.