Budget travelers who use Flixbus and other long-distance coaches, or Blablacar if you carpool, vacation or weekend departures are looking a little more complicated after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The reason? The closure of the famous Paris bus station, located in Bercy, where road traffic is heavy at all hours of the day and night. Paris City Hall's first deputy mayor, 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 could be deployed in the Ile-de-France region, outside the capital, which would 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".
In the meantime, until the Olympic Games,"emergency measures" will continue to be put in place to maintain the station by the municipality.
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