Paris transport operator doubling number of new hires for Paris 2024

PARIS : Paris’s main transport operator (RATP) is doubling its hiring numbers this year as the French capital’s public transport system is getting ready to be put to the test during the Olympics. While public transport traffic usually goes 30 per cent down in August in Paris, RATP is expecting the decline to be softened up by a visitors’ increase of about 15 per cent due to the July 26-Aug. 11 Games. RATP will also need to compensate the lack of personnel during a traditional holiday time. “During the Games we expect traffic to be equivalent to what it is in October,” RATP spokesman Jimmy Brun told Reuters on Friday on a busy morning at the Chatelet-Les Halles central hub.…