A TGV at Saint-Charles station - Claude Paris / AP / SIPA

SNCF traffic improved on Wednesday. Management canceled 80% of TGV and TER trains as well as 75% of Transilien trains, while the strike against pension reform entered its 42nd day.

Regarding this Tuesday, the rate of strikers at the SNCF rose to 6%, on the 41st consecutive day of the strike against the pension reform, with a quarter (24.8%) of train drivers on strike, a announced management. Among the other personnel essential to the circulation of trains, 14.9% of the controllers and 10.6% of the signalmen were on strike, according to a count of the direction.

All of these rates are up sharply from Monday, when the overall rate fell to 4.3%, its lowest level since the start of the movement. The highest level - 55.6% - had been reached on the first day of the unlimited strike, December 5.

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