Bikes used by athletes from the Paris Olympic Games sold in Essonne

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From the Olympic Village to the Paris-Saclay urban campus. The Paris-Saclay Public Development Establishment (EPA) a organizedSaturday October 5, 2024 in Gif-sur-Yvette (Essonne), a sale of bikes second hand used by athletes during the Paris Olympic Games.

Around a hundred bikes sold

In total, 110 bikes were sold on the Potier mall, the first shopping street in Paris-Saclay in the Moulon district.

Among these, the majority came directly from the athletes’ village of the Paris Olympics where they served to athletes for their local travel.

If everyone could buy a model, the The sale was aimed particularly at students.

A buyout scholarship planned at the end of the school year

The Île-de-France Region, providing a subsidy of 100 euros per mechanical bicycle purchased, the bicycle possibly amounted to less than 100 euros for those under 26.

The new generation of students breaks with the generalized motorization model which dominates mobility in the Saclay plateau region and shows a strong appetite for practical and flexible mobility to travel around the plateau and its 7 km long, reach its housing, course locations, shops or entertainment points.

At the end of the school year, the EPA will organize a bike buyback exchange then a new resale at the start of the school year following in connection with higher education establishments and student associations.

Each station on line 18 on the plateau will have 420 bicycle spaces

The stated objective : “develop a virtuous cycle of cycling”, while awaiting the arrival in October 2026 of the first section of line 18 of the Grand Paris Express between Massy Palaiseau and Christ de Saclay.

To support this policy in favor of the development of cycling, the Société des Grands Projets, constructor of the metro and Île-de-France Mobilités decided, at the end of 2023, to increase the number of places from 120 to 420 bicycle parking within each station.

New cycle paths will be developed

Between now and the arrival of the metro, the network of cycle paths will be reinforced. In the concerted development zones (ZAC) managed by the Paris-Saclay EPA, 31 km of cycle paths have already been created.

In addition to the V8 Plaisir / Paris line of the future Vélo Île-de-France network, other connections will be made between the plateau and the valley from neighboring Yvette.

“In the times to come,we will carry out, in consultation with elected officials, the missing links between the cycle paths inside our ZACs and those in the municipalities in order to reconnect the network and thus allow people to go further by bike,” underlines Martin Guespereau, director of EPA Paris Saclay.

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