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The first sections of transit lines, announced two months ago the Grand Paris transportation plan, will enter service in 2017. Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed yesterday in the defence and the Minister in charge of the relaunch, Patrick Devedjian, even mentioned the construction of a TGV train station in the Western Parisian business district. Intended to allow a future TGV Normandie which would extend his trip by Le Bourget to Roissy, it could also receive Thalys which would put the defence in relation to the Belgium and the Germany and Eurostar from London.

However, the feasibility of such a link must be further demonstrated. The possibility to pass the TGV in the tunnels of the automatic metro imagined by the Secretary of State for the development of the capital area Christian white indeed leaves more than one puzzled expert. Present at the announcement, Guillaume Pepy, the pattern of the SNCF, said "very interested" but in the immediate future, he announced that the extension of the RER Eole to defence and the Mantois should be ready by 2015. A true challenge for this site which is approximately EUR 2 billion. To save time, it was proposed to create a group of public interest with network Ferré de France and the Union of the transport of Ile-de-France. "A project essential for people who are West of the defence and essential to desaturate A du RER line", said Guillaume Pepy referring to 20 trains per hour capable of linking the gare du Nord in six minutes.

Increased capabilities

The President of the RATP, Pierre Mongin, for his part recalled ongoing improvements on the network that carries more than three passengers on four to the defence. 2 Billion euros, which will be incurred by 2012, will enable capacity of 30 of the A of RER line by line by 2011 of the trains at two levels. They also include the automation of line 1 of the Metro which will allow to earn 15 of capacity. To add the extensions of the tramway T2 to Val - Oise and the porte de Versailles and increase its capacity by 15 also. "Beyond the Grand Paris Metro Beltway will be the answer because it will allow to bring 40,000 passenger each way at the time of the defence advanced." "It will also link the defence in half an hour at the airport Charles-de-Gaulle", said Pierre Mongin.

For delays, and more generally those projects of the Grand Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday that he... had his own. The Transport plan is almost with curl at the end of two months specified in the Ile-de-France region, the SNCF and the RATP. "He is ready to serve as a basis for public debate," j. Nicolas Sarkozy in recalling that the concessions have been both State that the region was the only way forward. A constructive spirit that he would like to see occur across the Paris region, that it is in the agora Paris Grand proposed or the association Paris metropolis of Bertrand Delanoë, provided that it puts order in its work. This spirit of cooperation applies also for the international teams of architects, who will have to be an "international workshop of the Grand Paris" where it will be possible to cross the skills of these experts, communities and the administration.

Especially, the Government will present "a project of specific law for the project of the Grand Paris" in the fall, announced the President pointing out that the magnitude of the issue warranted. "This Act will accelerate procedures", keeping "a real debate, a real investigation", he added. The Act will create relaxed around the stations planning procedures to apply "new ideas in planners." Finally, an institution or a public capital company will be responsible for the master of the Grand Paris book.