The decision of the RTM to switch to holiday hours goes badly in Marseille

• Due to the fifth wave affecting its staff and teleworking, the RTM has decided to switch all of its metro and tram lines, and around twenty bus lines, to green schedules.

• No date has yet been put forward for the end of this measure.

• Le Printemps Marseillais accuses the metropolis of "endangering" the safety of the Marseillais.

"The two oars have just passed Madame!" Normally, this sentence launched by a mocking teenager from the escalator opposite, would have made you smile. Except that since Monday, the RTM has gone to Marseille on holiday schedules, and we have to wait this Tuesday morning no less than 7 minutes before the next metro pass. This reduction in traffic, which comes in the midst of the fifth wave of Covid-19, concerns both the metro and the tram. About twenty bus lines are also affected, the 21 jet line directly connecting the city center and the Luminy campus being completely suspended.

How long will the measurement last? "Today, there is no end date", we confided to the RTM. The Marseille transport network justifies this reduction in its service by "a drop in traffic of around 30% on the network", following government announcements on the three mandatory days of teleworking, and "the lack of related personnel in this fifth wave ", whether they are" positive cases, contact cases or in the obligation to stay at home to take care of the children ". "Reported to the entire network, our offer is reduced by 7%", calculates the RTM, which however did not bother to warn users via its two Twitter accounts.

We talk about one bus per hour ???

Thank you @RTM_Officiel the children who go to school how do they do?

Are they taking an Uber?

I can't take any more.

# ligne80 and nothing updated on the app.

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- laurence bricteux 🔆 (@ laurence0501) January 10, 2022

“We do not discover this epidemic!

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Many discovered the situation on Monday, which caused a reaction on social networks. In the same opinion of Nicolas Rougerie, secretary general of the CFDT RTM, “it is very difficult to enforce social distancing. "According to him," the echoes from the field do not reflect a significant drop in attendance ", despite teleworking. “We deplore it, but is there another solution than reducing our offer because we don't have a driver to drive the bus? He asks, refuting the idea of ​​using precarious jobs.

"We do not discover this epidemic, we are in the fifth wave and we realize that the RTM did not anticipate, denounces Audrey Gatian, deputy mayor in charge of mobility. When we have the political will to maintain a public service, we implement HR solutions. We cannot say that people no longer travel, it is contrary to the reality on the ground! "And to add:" We are calling for a normal service for better distancing, we are not even asking for a reinforced service, which could be logical in a period of health crisis. "

"The metropolis endangers the safety of the Marseillais", also accuses the Marseilles Spring, which denounces in a press release an "incomprehensible choice" and "a unilateral decision in total contradiction with the accentuation of the fifth wave which hits hard our city" . In an exchange with an elected majority on Twitter, the president of the RTM, Catherine Pila, reacted in these words: “Drivers are not teleworking, them! They are at the forefront of service to the public! And some are sick. Pay homage to them, rather than criticize their mission! And provide the nursery school agents with FFP2! Should not close yet! "

Contacted, Catherine Pilla has not responded for the moment to the solicitations of

.

And a press release from the metropolis was expected, on a subject which took a very political turn on Tuesday.

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