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«Trams goods »to deliver great surfaces

Why not use the Petite Ceinture to set up a system of delivery of the goods at destination in particular of great surfaces of Paris? According to first studies' undertaken by the SNCF, about fifteen «tram-goods »could be used each day on the Petite Ceinture to feed from the platforms of distribution located near the ways. «The project thus outlined seems a brief reply to the problem of the congestion and pollution by supporting the bursting of the loads in sites close to the downtown area », can one read in the report/ratio of February 1999 of the working group having working on the reopening of the Petite Ceinture. The subject is thus taken very with the serious one. «A study in progress, is financed by Predicted », confirms one with the direction Freight the SNCF «We work on the possibility of creating on industrial waste lands belonging to the SNCF of the warehouses which would be connected by quiet coaches using the Petite Ceinture ». Concretely, the goods could be conveyed by trains until the sites of warehouses the SNCF located at the gates of Paris, like Evangiles, La Chapelle or les Batignolles, and from there take the Petite Ceinture to go to close to the customers to serve more, the final delivery being done well by vans. «We will present this project in June and the first tests could take place in September », announces the direction of the Freight of the SNCF

Mr. L LVDR of 10-may-00

Supermarkets delivered by tram
To decrease the trucks in Paris, the SNCF is on the point of proposing to the Trade union of the conveyor Parisian (STP) an original solution: to deliver the supermarkets of the capital by «trams goods »circulating on the unused ways of the Petite Ceinture. Tests could take place as of the re-entry if the STP gives its green fire But, the trade union studies the possibility of reopening this line with the passenger traffic in the east and the north of Paris to prolong the tram envisaged into 2005, between the porte de Versailles and Ivry.

Parisien/Aujourd' today of May 9 00