Paris Olympics 2024: Locals ask if they're worth the trouble - BBC News

Metro tickets will cost more, rentals are soaring and Paris faces months of disruption.

2 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, AFPImage caption, It is not hard these days to find Parisians quite happy to curse next year's GamesBy Hugh SchofieldBBC News, ParisAre Parisians falling out of love with their own Olympic Games?

That conclusion might seem inescapable after a series of bad news stories over the last couple of weeks.

First the city's own Mayor Anne Hidalgo said out of the blue that transport for next summer's Games would "not be ready in time".

Then it was announced that far from buses and metros being free for competition ticket-holders - as promised in the Paris bid for the Games - fares will actually double for the six weeks of the Olympics and Paralympics.

The police chief revealed that his security plan comprises no less than four separate exclusion zones around each Olympic venue - prompting the head of the hoteliers' union to say it was "so complicated I get a headache just looking at it".