Through their concern for the environment, a new focus on public transport and 'soft mobility' and reduced on-street parking, Parisians and Ile-de-France residents as a whole are slowly but surely changing their habits.
In the capital, there is a structural drop in the use of cars, and increasing numbers of households do not own one. The car is no longer necessarily seen as an object of desire or property but as a travel service like any other, to be used as needed.
For very short journeys or the opposite: for long one-off journeys.
To support mobility and accommodate an ever greater number of cycles and motorcycles, shared vehicles (car-share, Autolib', car-pooling, peer-to-peer car sharing) and alternative fuel vehicles (electric, LPG, hybrids, etc.) Saemes is working on remodelling its spaces. The question concerns not only reserving spaces for electric or car-share vehicles, but also thinking about everyone's comfort, particularly people with reduced mobility and cyclists.
The Greater Paris project is not far away
In 2020, the Southern section of line 15 will open, from Pont-de-Sèvres in the west to Noisy Champs in the east. This will no doubt mean the construction of new car parks: mixed-use car parks open to the public, businesses and residents, although exact needs are yet to be defined. But one thing is certain: these new parking infrastructures will also become intermodal interchanges with the onus on new services.
La Caisse des Dépôts et des Consignations, a shareholder in Saemes, has been present for 200 years at every stage in the Paris region's development. With its subsidiaries, it has the experience and a unique skill set to contribute to the huge ambition embodied in the Greater Paris project: one that will have an impact on the economy, local cohesion, social inclusion and sustainable development in Ile-de-France – and beyond that, on France's global reach.
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