Google Maps and other apps asked to restrict route options during Paris Olympics Games

The logo of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games and the Olympics rings are seen on the facade of the Paris city hall in Paris, France, on Jan 18, 2024. Paris did not build an Olympic Park but decided instead to use existing infrastructure across the city, which spectators will reach predominantly by public transport. — Reuters

PARIS: Navigation applications, such as Google Maps, have been asked by Paris’s public transport authority to restrict suggested routes during the 2024 Olympic Games to the ones prepared for travellers, the body’s chief executive said.

“We have asked (Google Maps, City Mapper and others) to relay our transport plans so that the traveller takes the route we have indicated,” Laurent Probst, head of Ile-de-France Mobilites, the authority governing public transport network operators in Paris and the surrounding region, told Ouest-France newspaper on Jan 17.