Emmanuel Macron announces objective of “developing RER network in ten main French cities”

Speaking in a video on YouTube, the President of the Republic has not detailed the calendar, the cities concerned nor the financing of this measure aimed at “holding our ecological ambition”.

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The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced on Sunday November 27, its objective of developing rail transport of the daily type of daily newspaper in ten French metropolises in order to promote ecological transition.

“To hold our ecological ambition, I want us to have a great national ambition: that there are in ten large agglomerations, ten major French metropolises, to develop a network of RER, urban trains. It is to say, basically, that the RER is not only in Paris. In the 10 main French cities, where there is thrombosis, where there is too much traffic, where the trips are complicated, we must Equipping a real urban transport strategy and it is a great objective for ecology, economics, quality of life, “he said in a posted sequence on Youtube , in which he answers internet users about the Ecology.

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The Regional Express Network (RER) is the dense network of regional trains circulating in Ile-de-France to a high rate. He has regularly extended since the 1960s. “The RER is not only in Paris”, we pleaded on Sunday evening in the presidential entourage, stressing the project of “ensuring that in the great French metropolises today ‘Hs congestioned, people who have pendulum journeys can make them without a car, by decarbonizing their journeys thanks to these metropolitan RERs “.

The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, will be responsible for the conduct of these major works, it was indicated from the same source, and while “projects began to emerge in the territories”. For the Elysée, “it is a question of putting an accelerator and prioritizing in 10 cities”, auguring a “big planning work”.

/Media reports cited above.