Forgotten by the super metro, the Val d’Oise department could finally be connected to this new 200-kilometer network. Included last July in the Île-de-France Region Master Plan project (SDRIF-E), line 19 is seeing its first outlines take shape.
Planned for 2040, line 19 aims to connect the La Défense business district, starting from the future Groues hub – where the RER line E will pass from next year, then from 2031 line 15 and eventually line 18– to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport by connecting to line 17, at the Gonesse Grand Paris Express station, currently under construction.
Around thirty kilometers long, the 19 will be almost entirely underground and its operation must be automatic as for the future lines 15, 16, 17 and 18. If the precise route has not yet been established, the objective of this line is to irrigate the towns of Argenteuil, Sarcelles and Gonesse with the creation of nine to eleven stations.
“Of the 68 Grand Paris Express stations, only the Triangle de Gonesse station is located in Val d’Oise,” laments Marie-Christine Cavecchi, the president of the Val d’Oise department. For the head of Val d’Oise, this line, once completed, will serve 650,000 Valdoisiens and nearly 450,000 jobs.
Travel times would thus be “considerably reduced whatever the route chosen”, making it possible to reach, for example, the Pont de Bezons in Roissy in around thirty minutes compared to double currently, Ermont-Eaubonne in Issy also in around thirty minutes compared to fifty minutes today.
The amount of the project would be estimated according to initial estimates as “between 5 and 6 billion euros”. A very large sum that the region will probably not be able to pay on its own, nor even with the support of the departments of Hauts-de-Seine and Val d’Oise. The State will therefore certainly have to put its hand in its pocket to finance this project, but for the moment this line does not seem to be its priority at all. “The State is not against line 19,” said Valérie Pécresse, the president of the region. “We want this line for before 2040, so we have to go there now! » she warned. While waiting to find a financial agreement, feasibility studies costing around 6.5 million euros will be commissioned by the Île-de-France region and the Val d’Oise department.
Today I am launching the general mobilization so that there is a fast and comfortable metro in Val d’Oise.
The Region is committed to this project of #Ligne19 from Nanterre to the Triangle de Gonesse. The Val d’Oise department was largely forgotten by the Grand Paris Express. ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/7rNCwxLlYA
— Valérie Pécresse (@vpecresse) November 22, 2023
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