• The SNCF had returned to the removal of 140 trains in Hauts-de-France from Monday, for lack of sufficient personnel.

  • Finally, this system will be well implemented during the two weeks of All Saints holidays.

  • The carrier plans to present another adapted transport plan as soon as the school year begins, without giving further details.

It looks like a Paratransit Plan (PTA), it has the same consequences as a PTA, but it's not a PTA.

This is, roughly, the meaning of a press release, published by the regional direction of the SNCF of Hauts-de-France, this Friday, to announce deletions of trains during the All Saints holidays.

We will not teach anyone anything by recalling that the Hauts-de-France TER network has been experiencing serious malfunctions for many months.

Even the rail carrier recognizes this, explaining that these "difficulties" were due to a "lack of personnel resources".

Where it gets stuck is at the level of train drivers, of which the SNCF ensures that 65 are missing to ensure normal service.

A lack that causes between 7 and 10% of train cancellations at the last moment.

To remedy this, and while waiting to train its drivers, the SNCF had planned to implement a suitable transport plan on Monday, causing the elimination for one year of 140 trains in the region.

But the carrier had reconsidered its decision in the face of discontent from users and the regional council.

A taste of after Toussaint?

Except that, this Friday, the SNCF announces a “reduction of the regional transport plan” during the All Saints holidays, i.e. the abolition of “136 trains per day on weekdays out of the 1,255 trains in normal service.

“The argument being to” make the supply of trains more reliable “, in particular on the” lines where the frequentation is the strongest.

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What about after the holidays?

It was not clearly explained.

The only thing we know is that the TER service will not return to normal.

Far from it, moreover, if we decipher the last sentence of the press release: "From November 7, SNCF Voyageurs will propose a transport plan to meet the same objectives vis-à-vis passengers, taking into account available resources. .

In other words, if resources are at the same point as they are today, users will not escape the paratransit plan that had been postponed.

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