It is the poor relation of rail.
Users of the Mantes-Paris line via Limay (Yvelines) have been waiting for years for an improvement in their transport conditions on the right bank of the Seine.
In vain.
Worse, they have just learned of the probable disappearance of the SNCF counter at Limay station.
One more stone for this station which welcomed 367,000 travelers in 2020 and radiates as far as the Vexin.
Reassembled, the mayor (DVG) Djamel Nedjar has just denounced the situation and demanded, once again, the improvement of the service to Paris Saint-Lazare.
Because today, travelers do not have direct trains to the capital.
From Limay, it takes them more than an hour to reach Paris, after a journey punctuated by stops in Juziers, Meulan, Chanteloup-les-Vignes, Herblay (Val-d'Oise)...
“It's long, too long, denounces David, a regular.
When there is no delay, the train takes 1h10. At the slightest problem, we arrive at 1h30!
And then, there are not enough sideboards.
Often, I take a train that takes me to Mantes-la-Jolie before taking another that drops me off in Paris.
It's ubiquitous.
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They are more than 7,000, like him, to cross the Seine every day to get a live from Mantes-la-Jolie.
And most travel by car or bus.
At rush hour, the bridges and the surroundings of the Mantes-la-Jolie station, which is also threatened with asphyxiation, are thus saturated.
Elected officials criticize an inequality of resources allocated to the two banks of the Seine
A trend that is likely to gain momentum with the arrival of the RER E in Mantes-la-Jolie, expected in 2024 and considered the number 1 priority at the local level.
“At a time when people are talking to us about “proximisation”, we are in the process of strengthening the daily transhumance of the inhabitants of the right bank who cross the Seine twice a day, in Limay, Gargenville or even Meulan” , denounces the mayor, criticizing the inequality of resources allocated to the two banks of the Seine.
The introduction of direct or even semi-direct trains would save passengers around twenty minutes.
Éric Roulot, the predecessor (PC) of Djamel Nedjar had already fought ten years ago to claim these trains.
Without ever having been heard.
A petition had circulated among the users.
Without effect.
In the entourage of the mayor, it is explained that this file must be carried by the urban community Grand Paris Seine & Oise, chaired by Cécile Zammit-Popescu, mayor (DVD) of Meulan-en-Yvelines.
In addition, a meeting has already taken place with the director of line J and another will be scheduled with the director of Île-de-France Mobilités.
Contacted, this body which manages the transport networks in Île-de-France, did not respond to our requests for information.
