RER Macron. The President of the Republic has announced that he is developing an RER network in 10 major cities in France, like Greater Paris.
[Mis à jour le 28 novembre 2022 à 10h52] This Sunday, November 27, 2022, Emmanuel Macron announced in his last video Youtube where he answers questions from Internet users on ecology, that he wanted to “develop an RER network in ten French cities”, as is the case in the city of Paris and its suburbs which has five RER lines. “In the ten main French cities where there is thrombosis, where there is too much traffic, where travel is complicated… We must have a real urban transport strategy”, he justified, “to say to yourself, basically, (that) the RER is not only in Paris”.
The opening of RER lines in the major provincial cities is, for the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune reported by Le Figaro, “a major transformation project, ecological and social, for the coming decade”. The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron said he believed “fully in the train”, answering a question asked on the social network Instagram concerning the alternative to the individual car. The presidential entourage announced on Sunday that they wanted to “ensure that in the large French metropolises which are now congested, people who have commuter journeys can do so without a car, by decarbonizing their journeys thanks to these metropolitan RERs”. The course is set, all that remains is to fix the details.
What are the 10 cities affected by Macron’s RER project?
If Emmanuel Macron did not give the names of the cities concerned by this ambitious national RER (regional express network) project, he nevertheless announced that it will be carried out in the 10 largest cities in France, which are Lyon, Marseille- Aix, Lille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nice, Nantes, Toulon, Douai-Lens and Strasbourg. For its part, the Elysée announced to Figaro that around fifteen projects were already under development “everywhere in France”, including the metropolis of Lille, the region of Bordeaux, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, but also from Grenoble, which is not yet one of the 10 largest cities in France.
How much will the RER project in the provinces announced by Macron cost?
The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron has not quantified the investments necessary for the construction of new public transport lines in the major cities of France outside Paris. However, these projects will take “ten years or more” to be finalized.