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Paris will not be ready to host the Olympics and Paralympics next summer, city mayor Anne Hidalgo has warned, amid concerns over slow progress on transport and social housing for the homeless.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be places where [public] transport will not be ready because there will not be enough trains and not frequently enough,\u201d Hidalgo told news show Quotidien<\/em> in thinly veiled criticism of Paris region president Valerie Pecresse.<\/p>\n The Ile de France [Paris region] Regional Council, led by right-winger Pecresse, is in charge of transport in the region.<\/p>\n Hidalgo said the government was also \u201ca little bit\u201d responsible for the situation, adding: \u201cBut we do this all together, so I\u2019m also concerned\u201d.<\/p>\n Socialist Hidalgo said the RER (regional express train) station at Porte Maillot in western Paris would not be ready for the Olympic Games, which run from 26 July to 11 August.<\/p>\n However, Pecresse wrote on social media platform X, formerly Twitter: \u201cWe will be ready. It\u2019s a huge collective effort that shouldn\u2019t be denigrated by an absent mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n Paris\u2019s public transport system <\/p>\n Hidalgo added that the situation of the homeless in the capital was another major issue.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to take them out and hide them [during the Olympics]. There should be a social legacy,\u201d Hidalgo said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to set up housing where they could be as soon as this winter and we\u2019re dealing with it with the regional authorities and the state and we all agree that we have to move forward \u2013 but we are not ready.\u201d<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2023\/11\/23\/11\/newFile-7.jpg\")
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