On the outskirts of the outer suburbs, where there is often little public transport, “evening buses” take over from the usual lines. Wishing to offer quality transport services to the inhabitants of the outer suburbs in order to give them access to leisure activities in the Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) has just announced the commissioning of eleven new lines. They will serve five territories where the service did not exist before. Enough to bring to 36 the number of these special lines throughout the region.
Concretely, depending on the time at which the last trains arrive, the buses wait for travelers at the station at the exit of the train. Once on board, the latter validate their pass and indicate at which bus stop “served by the service” they wish to get off, allowing the driver “to adjust his route according to requests”. Thus, the driver can use a “route calculator”, which will suggest the “most suitable” route. In certain cases, in the event of great affluence, it is “the normal route which will be privileged”.
“This service improves correspondence with the train, facilitates the last kilometer and makes returns safer”, we explained at IDFM on Tuesday, well aware of the difficulty of certain inhabitants of the greater crown to move in the evening without car. “Every evening”, these buses “wait for travelers at the arrival of the trains at the station to pick them up and drop them off at the stop of the lines closest to their homes”. With the advantage that the departure times “correspond to the arrival times of the trains from Paris”. And “if the train is late, the evening bus adapts and waits”, we underline at IDFM.
In detail, these 11 new lines will leave in particular from the stations of Goussainville, Gonesse and Garges-lès-Gonesse, in Val-d’Oise (95), Mitry-le-Neuf, Mitry-Claye and Villeparisis , Montereau Nord and Montereau Sud, Fontainebleau-Moret, Fontainebleau-Avon and Moret-sur-Loing – Veneux-les-Sablons and Nemours, in Seine-et-Marne (77). They will be accessible “without prior reservation” and with a classic transport ticket from the IDFM network.
A news hailed by James Chéron, the mayor of Montereau in Seine-et-Marne (77), who welcomed this new service which allowed travelers on the R line of the Transilien to take the buses “at 10:55 p.m. and at 11.55 p.m. after train arrivals.