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RER B and D: work postponed to maintain the Indochina concert on May 21 at the Stade de France

2022-02-14T17:49:50.203Z


The government has decided and asked SNCF Réseau to postpone a project scheduled for May 21, to maintain the circulation of the RER. A report


Did Indochine ask the moon to maintain the RER for his concert at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis)?

Still, the government has decided to postpone work scheduled for May 21 north of RER B, to avoid compromising the holding of a group event.

Contacted, the Ministry of Transport confirms this information published in Le Monde on Monday.

“We actually asked for the work to be postponed after verifying that it had no impact on the schedule of CDG Express or RER D operations. The work will be rescheduled with other work at no additional cost,” indicates Jean- Baptist Djebbari.

25 events compromised by the absence of RER B and D

As early as last November, SNCF Transilien had warned the tens of thousands of spectators who had planned to go see a concert or a match at the Stade de France in 2022. Given the multiplicity of work planned on the RER B and D , and the progress of the CDG Express construction site, it was impossible to convey and evacuate the approximately 80,000 potential spectators from the enclosure.

More than 25 events, scheduled one evening without RER, were compromised.

Among them: the concerts of Indochina, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soprano, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Booba or even Mylène Farmer.

At the end of the year, the government entrusted an expert, Philippe Yvin, with the mission of unraveling this puzzle.

Three alternatives were proposed.

Either a pure and simple postponement of the event.

Either a relocation to another site (such as the Parc des Princes, in Paris).

Or the reduction of the gauge of the stadium so that part of the spectators can be directed towards line 13 of the metro.

A reassuring tweet from Nicola Sirkis

The Indochina concert could thus have been brought forward to Friday, May 20.

But as early as December, the leader of the group, Nicola Sirkis, confided that a continuation on Saturday May 21 was under negotiation with "the highest authorities to be able to organize all the means of substitution by bus, shuttles, for that you can get to the Stade de France without any problem, on time, and in the best conditions".

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— nicola sirkis (@nicolasirkis) December 3, 2021

This conflict, between the need to carry out work and maintain the concert event of a leading group on the French scene, was settled by the Minister of Transport in January.

Jean-Baptiste Djebbari officially asked Luc Lallemand, the boss of SNCF Réseau, the works manager, to suspend operations on the RER B catenary scheduled for the weekend of May 21 and 22.

A postponement to the detriment of the 800,000 users of the RER B?

On the side of user associations, the development of the work schedule to maintain a concert on a Saturday evening leaves circumspect.

"In terms of form, canceling work so late, it's not very serious, grinds Marc Pélissier, president of the association of transport users in Île-de-France (AUT-IDF).

And when will they be postponed?

This work on the electrical installations of RER B is necessary.

Work on the weekend precisely makes it possible to have less nuisance for travelers during the week.

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Same feeling of bitterness at Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM).

The transport organizing authority has been denouncing for months the traffic jam of planned works on the RER B and D lines caused by the CDG Express, carried by the State.

“What is most important?

Maintain a concert on a Saturday evening or preserve the 800,000 daily users of the RER B?

“, we confide at IDFM.

“SNCF Réseau and the State, its guardianship, have chosen to force a transition with an intense program of work on this axis for 2022 and 2023 despite our repeated warnings about the insufficiency of the means of substitution that they will be up to take charge,” said Valérie Pécresse, president of IDFM, last November.

In 2022 and 2023, dozens of weekends of work will be inevitable, with long disruptions to be suffered by the Ile-de-France residents.

"It is time for SNCF Réseau to give us a clear timetable and an overall vision", asks Marc Pélissier.

Source: leparis

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