REPORTAGE
The strike against the pension reform continues. Despite less massive demonstrations Tuesday, compared to those of December 5, the movement remains very followed, with very strong disruption in public transport. A very slight improvement is however to be noted Wednesday on the side of the SNCF, with one TGV on four on average, three TER out of ten, and one Transilien out of five.
In Dunkirk in particular, the station was able to reopen after six days of closure, but with a single train of planned departure, to Lille. "It's an apparition," Nathalie quipped at the microphone of Europe 1. "Frankly, it's warm to the heart!" Between Lille and Dunkirk, every day, 3,000 travelers make the commuter migration, and find themselves stranded by the strike. "We took the car, or teleworked if we could, but we're really penalized, I do not know if it's going to work out with the ads, but we hope so," slips a worker, while Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, will unveil the details of the reform in the middle of the day.
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Traffic still very congested in Île-de-France
On the side of the RATP, ten metro lines are still closed in Paris. In Île-de-France, many users have turned to the car to go to work, but in the morning traffic jams, the exasperation largely replaced the impatience of the first days. At eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, there were already more than 450 kilometers of traffic jams in the Paris region, according to the sytadin traffic site, a figure well above the thresholds considered "exceptional" by this site dependent on the Roads Directorate. Ile-de-France.
One of the main blocking points was at the Porte Maillot. At 6 o'clock, the entire Avenue Charles de Gaulle, up to that of the Grande Armée, was bottled. "In the traffic jams, we have nerves alive," says a motorist. "I put between two hours and 2:30 to 50 kilometers." Even for two-wheelers, used to passing between lines of cars, the situation becomes more and more heavy. "As long as you're on a bike, you always go, but it's more complicated than before," said a biker. Especially as Wednesday morning, the rain was in the game.
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Other areas that were congested around Paris: the Porte d'Orleans on the A6, the A1 from Roissy towards the capital, and all the A86. "It's 1:10 that I left home, and I've done ten kilometers," laments a cross driver at one of the entrances north of Paris. And on all lips now the same question: when will the end of the strike?