Paris (AFP)
SNCF expects traffic "significantly improving" for Monday, but the situation will remain "very disturbed" on the RATP network due to the mobilization against pension reform, according to forecasts communicated on Sunday.
The Paris transport authority thus provides that all metro lines will be open for the recovery day after two weeks of school holidays, but that only lines 1 and 14 will operate normally.
The others will be very disturbed, as well as on the RER A (one train in two) and B (one train in two). The tram will run almost normally and 3 out of 4 buses on average.
As the unlimited strike enters its second month, the SNCF plans for its part 1 Transilien out of 2 in Ile-de-France, 6 TER out of 10, "normal or almost normal traffic on practically all the major destinations from Paris" with 8 TGV out of 10 on average, but only 2 Intercités out of 5, said Sunday Agnès Ogier, the spokesperson for the SNCF group in a press point.
Regarding TGV Inoui, Ouigo and Intercités, all trains available for sale until January 8 are "guaranteed" and "refundable and exchangeable without charge" in case of train cancellation, she said. .
"Customers should not hesitate to buy their ticket," she said.
In a press release, the SNCF indicated that "there were last minute places available at low cost", and in particular 130,000 places at less than 40 euros until January 8.
Disparities also in the Paris region, with the "two-thirds" of the trains in circulation on the Saint-Lazare station in Paris, but 40% of the traffic on lines C and D of the RER, even "only 30%" on the line RER From the south from the Gare de Lyon, according to Mrs. Ogier.
SNCF will make a new mid-week traffic forecast point "for the rest of the week and the weekend".
Internationally, traffic will be 90% ensured on Eurostar, 80% on Thalys, while traffic will be approximately one in two on other lines.
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