Has the improvement of the bus service been considered?

The improvement of a bus service has been studied.

Without the metro, the service to the territory would rely on buses to connect the inhabitants of the Les Rigollots and Grands Pêchers districts to Château de Vincennes, Vincennes RER, Val de Fontenay or Mairie de Montreuil.

Lines 118, 124, 127, 301 and 116 were reorganized and improved in 2024, when metro line 11 was extended. Some are already very busy, including line 118, at 87% of its capacity.

Three levers would improve the service:

• increase the capacity of buses, which are currently standard (12 m), with articulated buses, which involves checking the bends in the routes and finding suitable maintenance and storage sites;
• increase frequency, which means more buses and therefore more storage and maintenance capacity;
• guarantee travel times, a condition for the increase in frequency to be real and effective, thanks to reserved lanes and priority at traffic lights.

However, the relief of the Romainville plateau and the narrowness of the streets and crossroads make it difficult to create reserved lanes or to envisage larger buses without widening the public space. Without a structuring project, the service would remain provided by buses subject to the vagaries of traffic.

To go further, the construction of a Bus Rapid Transit, a structuring project with the creation of dedicated lanes, has been studied.

> Consult the current transport diagnosis, the situation without a project and the analysis of the prospects for improving the bus offer and the analysis of a solution with a Bus Rapid Transit in the consultation file: chapter 3, p.50-60; chapter 4, p.64-68 and p.72-85.