The closure of the Grand Paris metro will not be completed in 2030

“We are going to break the course of 2030, we are going to reset the deadline for commissioning the last two sections” of line 15, from Pont de Sèvres to Saint-Denis Pleyel then to Champigny, explained Mr. Monteils on Tuesday.

The SGP is in charge of building 200 km of automatic metro, with four new lines, numbered from 15 to 18, and the extensions of line 14. Articulating around a circular line, several branches must connect the airports of Orly and Roissy, the scientific center of Saclay and the sensitive districts of Seine-Saint-Denis.

The lines are divided into several batches, each with a calendar.

"We do not concretely have an offer which is to be put into service in 2030", for the realization of the lot going from Pont de Sèvres to La Défense and Courbevoie, to the west, he noted.

Mr. Monteils refused to advance an opening date until the group responsible for its construction has been chosen.

“The last deadline for the Grand Paris Express will not be 2030”, but “we are not two years” behind, he said, hinting at an opening target in 2031. “We are shifting a few months, and we feel much more robust on the overall schedule", he underlined.

The boss of the SGP does not think that the three other lots of line 15 to the north and east of Paris - the two sections "15 west" and "15 east" of the circular line being cut into four lots, whose realization will be entrusted to a group of BTP-- will fall further behind.

The schedule for the rest of the work on the Grand Paris metro, updated in July 2021, is however confirmed.

"We are perfectly on time" for the extensions of line 14 expected for the 2024 Olympic Games, north to Saint-Denis Pleyel and south to Orly airport, noted Mr. Monteils.

It is then the "15 south", the first section of the circular line, which should open at the end of 2025 between Pont de Sèvres, Champigny and Noisy-Champs.