Valls announced the launch of the RER E Eole works – Le Figaro

Manuel Valls Saturday announced the launch of the highly anticipated work of the RER E Eole, which will extend the RER line to the west of Paris, thanks to “outstanding contribution” to the state of 500 million euros. “I have decided and we decided with Alain Vidal, Secretary of State for Transport, the State and beyond its commitments in favor of the Grand Paris, would bring additional exceptional contribution of € 500 million to allow the launching of Eole project, and its launch now, “said the Prime Minister.

Mr. Valls, who inaugurated Saturday the new Rosa Parks station in the 19th arrondissement, in the northeast of the capital, was also “welcomed” Paris and the Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines for their contributions, nearly EUR 500 million for the financing of this project. The Eole project (East-West Express Link), a gigantic project of 3.5 billion euros that will allow decongest the RER A line must extend the E 55 km west, including 8 km of tunnel, . Train station Haussmann Saint-Lazare train station of Mantes-la-Jolie

47 km of existing roads will be redeveloped and three new stations created: Porte Maillot, La Défense-CNIT and Nanterre la-Folie. Its commissioning is planned in 2020 to Nanterre, then in 2022 to Mantes-la-Jolie. It should double the number of daily users by bringing them to some 620,000. The announcement by the Prime Minister of the closure of a financing plan that had been dragging for months, will allow launching the most spectacular operation of the project, digging a tunnel eight kilometers between the Haussmann-St Lazare and Defense, with thousands of jobs at the end.

part of the funding was already achieved with one billion euros of the Société du Grand Paris 1.5 billion and the plan contract State -Region (CPER) 2015-2020 signed in June. The state thus puts his hands in his pocket again via the Société du Grand Paris (500 million), while sources close to the file, will give 200 million Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine and Paris 150 000 000 125 000 000 . Mr. Valls recalled the work planned for the south line of 15 Grand Paris Express, the online Eole and the line 15 intersecting the “future Bry-Villiers-Champigny station that good will come,” he confirmed.

the President of the Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse (LR) it has recalled its “goal to create the capital Region a transport network larger, more comfortable, more secure, more reliable “and truly handicapped accessible. The Rosa Parks Station, equipped with photovoltaic panels and designed to be energy positive, was commissioned last December 13 after five years of construction at a cost of 130 million euros. The name of this station pays tribute to Rosa Parks, American activist for civil rights of blacks who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 in the segregationist Alabama.

It is one of the links in the Greater Paris transport its connection with line E and T3 tramway. From the station, travelers will save 30 minutes travel time to go to La Défense or the universities of Nanterre and Cergy-Pontoise. Eventually, the line E will be the most interconnected line of Ile-de-France, with 12 train lines, 10 metro lines, trams 4 and the future Grand Paris Express.