Budget travelers who use Flixbus and other long-distance coaches, or Blablacar if you carpool, vacation or weekend departures looked a little more complicated after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The reason? The announced closure of the famous Paris bus station, located in Bercy, where road traffic is heavy at all hours of the day and night. The first deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, spoke to AFP about the"massification of coach traffic", "incivilities" and poor management by the operators on site, making the space unliveable and dirty.
To compensate for this future closure, new parking lots and bus stations are to be built in the Ile-de-France region, outside the capital, which will be smaller and more accessible to the general population. The Bercy station will not disappear altogether, however, as it will only be used by tourist coaches, which is why it was built in the first place in 1996, to"relieve the pressure on central Paris". If it was to cease receiving buses after the Olympic Games, this will have to wait a little longer, until 2030.
But where will these new bus stations open in the near future? Flixbus had asked that the future station be accessible by metro. We can think of Marne-la-Vallée, Porte Maillot or Seine-Saint-Denis, which is starting to be better and better served, notably Saint-Denis-Pleyel. According to one report, it would be better to create a series of stations to create a network.
