Line 18: Towards a New Delay for the First Line of the Grand Paris Express?
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By 2030, this automatic line will link Versailles to Orly Airport. The first stretch between Massy-Palaiseau and Christ de Saclay was scheduled to open on October 1, 2026, but a delay at the end of the year is almost beyond doubt.
While work on the first stretch, between Massy-Palaiseau and Christ de Saclay, has almost been completed and trials have begun on the site, travellers will have to wait to borrow it. Its start date is expected to be known on June 25.
The first section of this automatic line, connecting the airport of Orly to Versailles-Chantier, is expected to welcome its first travellers in the autumn, after a series of technical tests and ongoing security validations. At the heart of the Saclay plateau, in the Essonne, the metal silhouette of the new Polytech station is now emerging in the middle of the laboratories of [...] L的article The line 18 of the Grand Paris Express aims at an autum…
It is normally the first line of the Grand Paris Express to open. Planned "in the autumn", the commissioning of the metro 18 is expected on firm foot by the thousands of students, researchers and employees of the Saclay plateau, now dependent on the car and buses to move around.
The Société des grands projets has detailed this Tuesday the progress of work on line 18 of the francilian metro, with a first section linking the plateau of Saclay to Massy-Palaiseau (Essonne) which is scheduled to be put into service next autumn. A first step for this line which will extend from Versailles Chantier to the airport of Orly to the 2030 horizon. The Société des grands projets, in charge of piloting the realization of the Grand Par…
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