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A metro station closed during the transport strike, Paris, December 5, 2019. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

The strike movement continues massively Monday, December 9 in public transport in France. Especially in Paris, at the start of a crucial week for pension reform.

The railway workers had called for hardening the movement for this fifth day of strike . It is therefore a "black Monday" in transport that is emerging because of the expected affluence in stations and stations.

SNCF says it insures " between 15 % and 20 % " of its usual traffic, while the RATP reports a traffic in the Paris area " extremely disturbed ". Nine out of 16 metro lines are closed on Monday, and traffic is extremely low for six others. Seven of the 25 " bus centers " of the RATP are blocked by strikers, only a third of the buses circulate against the half planned this Sunday evening.

" All in the same galley "

Users are therefore struggling at the beginning of this week. In the rain, Place de la République, our journalist David Baché met Hadjara, a resident of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, north of the capital. She works in Colombes, in the suburbs, about ten kilometers away.

" I tried bus 96, " she says, " but it's so full we could not. We'll wait to see the second, if I can take it to Châtelet, and then I take the metro 14 to go to the station Saint-Lazare ... Well, it's the same galley. I hope it will not be like Thursday, because when I got home from work, I walked to Colombes on foot. She philosophizes: " We are all in the same trouble. "

" Not sure to keep smiling for a long time "

This galley, Louis shares it too. Cook, he lives in the 15th arrondissement, in the south of Paris, and works in the 20th, North. To come to work, he must therefore cross the entire capital.

" I usually come by subway," he explains to David Baché. I have three subway lines to take and two changes to make. There, this morning, I took a taxi, because it was not possible. It cost me 40 euros the race, and it is not refunded to me by my employer. I take it with a smile, but I'm not sure to keep it very long. "

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