The current journey time of 3 hours 14 minutes to Paris by TGV will be reduced to 2 hours in July 2017. With 20 direct roundtrips per day , a train will depart for Paris hourly throughout the day, and every half hour at peak times, with trains leaving earlier and later in the day. Bordeaux St Jean station already receives more than 11 million passengers a year and is linked to the city centre in just 10 minutes via the tram.
