Alstom wins a mégacontrat for future subways of Paris – Boursorama

Alstom wins a mégacontrat for future subways of Paris – Boursorama

Alstom Transport has won a contract worth more than 2 billion euros (AFP / File / Georges Gobet)

Alstom Transport has won a contract worth more than € 2 billion to build new subways of Paris, in particular provide the first trains of the future Grand Paris Express network, which should be gradually deployed from 2019.

The RATP, the Transport Union of Ile-de-France (STIF) and the Society of Greater Paris (SGP) have awarded Alstom Transport market of over two billion over 15 years, and whose the first two tranches will be 100% funded by STIF.

Alstom MP14 and build up to 217 trains a new model to renew automated metro lines 1, 4, 6 and 11, but also to provide first subway network to the future Grand Paris Express.

“This decision is an important step in the renewal of rolling stock on pneumatic operated by RATP, as well as the realization of the Grand Paris Express “rejoice RATP, STIF and GSP. The first stage of the Grand Paris Express is the extension of the line 14 to the north, between the Saint-Lazare train station and the town hall of Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), which must be created in the summer of 2019.

This command must also be able to “meet the supply increases by STIF” and “anticipate new needs with the extensions of lines decided by the STIF (line 1 to Val-de- Fontenay, line 4 to Bagneux, line 11 to Rosny, line 14 to Mairie de Saint-Ouen, …), “they detail

-. 2,000 jobs for 10 years –

The contract was awarded Friday at Alstom Transport by the Board of Directors of the RATP, coordinator of the group control

The STIF Board on February 11, then. SGP Supervisory Board on February 16, must approve the agreements of operation and financing of the first phase of the market.

The RATP will then “notify an initial order for 35 trains of 8 cars for a total of 518 million euros, “for the extension of Line 14 to Mairie de Saint-Ouen. The current trains with 6 cars, will be replaced gradually, “in order to increase the maximum capacity of the line 14 of 30,000 to 35,500 passengers / hour,” from 2021.

A second order, “up to 37 trains of 8 cars, meet the needs of southern extensions to Orly Airport and North in Saint Denis Pleyel: the maximum capacity of the line will then shift to over 39,000 passengers / hour”.

A metro train crossing a bridge in Paris, April 29, 2012 (AFP / File / Loic Venance)

In addition, conditional phases will order six and five train cars, for the equipping lines 4 and 11.

For the order placed by the French group is also expected to create or sustain 2,000 jobs in France for a ten years on the seven Alstom sites that will participate in the project (Valenciennes, Le Creusot, Ornans, Villeurbanne, Tarbes, Saint-Ouen and Aix-en-Provence) and supplier of the French rail industry.

In December, the Federation of Railway Industries (FIF) had alerted the authorities, saying that 10,000 to 15,000 jobs would be threatened by 2018 by lower commandeer trains, subways, tramways.

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