CDG Express

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CDG Express is the name of a railway connection planned in France , which will connect the Paris Ostbahnhof ( Gare de l'Est ) with the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport . The 32-kilometer route is intended to offer an attractive connection without intermediate stops for air travelers and to be implemented as part of a concession model by a private company that has to rely on the French national railway SNCF to operate the trains .

Failure of the first attempt

Originally it was planned to open it by 2016, but the project could not be realized because the (only) candidate for receiving the concession, a consortium around the French construction company Vinci , did not sign the contract as originally planned during the course of the selection process 2010 signed.

A second attempt in 2014

After a member of the French government experienced a prolonged breakdown on the RER B between the airport and Paris in January 2014, the project got moving again: In the summer of 2014, representatives of the French government, the airport operating company ADP and the RFF as the operator of the railway network met Agreement that provides for the implementation of the project. Start of construction to 2019 [date] be completed is hoped for the 2023rd

The project

A non-stop connection is planned between the airport and Paris-Est train station . The trains should run every quarter of an hour from 5 a.m. to midnight and take just 20 minutes for the 32 km route. Only 8 km of the route have to be rebuilt: a short connection between the exit tracks from the Gare de l'Est to the tracks that lead to the Gare du Nord and a route between Villiparisis and the airport, next to the existing TGV route.

The agreements from spring 2017

Agreements were made regarding the financing of the project and the completion date: The operating company is supported by three companies, each of which takes over a third of the company's capital. it is ADP , the operating company of Paris airports, SNCF Réseau , which operates the French railway network, and the state-owned Caisse des Dépôts .

The construction costs are estimated at around 1.7 billion euros. Each of the three partners contributes 450 to 500 million euros. ADP gives an advance of 100 million euros, which must be refunded. The rest is financed through bank loans. After the start of operations, the company will finance itself from two sources: on the one hand, the operator of the trains pays train path fees (which is partly calculated from the number of passengers). On the other hand, from April 2024, a local transport surcharge will be levied on flight tickets to and from Paris (except for transit flights with a change in Paris), which can amount to up to 1.40 euros.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Figaro : Le projet de train reliant Paris à Roissy est menacé. September 20, 2010, accessed May 19, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Challenges.fr: Le CDG Express reliera Paris à Roissy en 20 minutes en 2023 (French) accessed on September 1, 2014 ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.challenges.fr
  3. ↑ [1] lesechof.fr of March 27, 2017 (French), accessed on April 2, 2014

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