PARIS : Paris 2024 officials will significantly reduce the use of dedicated cars and buses and have accredited personnel travel on public transport, using the city's current system rather than pay for costly additions in times of high inflation.After a three-day inspection by the International Olympic Com
PARIS : Paris 2024 officials will significantly reduce the use of dedicated cars and buses and have accredited personnel travel on public transport, using the city's current system rather than pay for costly additions in times of high inflation.
"Thanks to the IOC and the pooling of a certain number of vehicle fleets, we are going to drop the number of vehicles by 30 per cent to 40 per cent as opposed to the last games," Thobois said. "I obviously am not naive; I know the world has changed," Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant, the head of the IOC Coordination Commission, said.
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