Paris (AFP)
Traffic at SNCF and RATP will again be disrupted Friday by the strike against pension reform, on the 51st consecutive day of the movement, with "very disrupted" metros and 7 TER out of 10 in circulation, the two announced on Thursday. groups.
At SNCF, TGV traffic will be normal, apart from disturbances due to bad weather in Occitania, "between Béziers and Narbonne," a spokesman for the railway group told AFP.
The traffic of "Ouigo, Thalys and Eurostar will be normal", he added. On the Intercités side, 7 out of 10 trains are planned.
On the TER network, "the situation will vary depending on the region," said the spokesperson. The "weakest" traffic is expected in Occitanie and Hauts-de-France, with half of the trains in circulation, in front of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions, where 6 TER out of 10 will run , he detailed.
In Ile-de-France, on the Transilien network, there will be 6 trains (RER SNCF, trains from the Paris suburbs) out of 10 in circulation "on average", according to the spokesman.
At RATP, tram traffic will be "almost normal", that of RER "slightly disturbed", like that of buses, while metro traffic will be "very disturbed", but no line will be "completely closed", provides for the management in a press release.
The traffic on lines 1, 7bis, 14 and Orlyval will be "normal". The service will be "disrupted" on line 10 "with 3 trains out of 4".
On the rest of the metro network, traffic will be "very disrupted", with two thirds or half of the trains in circulation on certain lines, while others will offer fewer trains (20%, 25% or a third), will not be not fully open or will only be in service for part of the day, depending on the authority.
The RATP provides 3 out of 4 buses in circulation "on average". On the tram side, traffic is announced "normal" on six lines, "almost normal" on T1 and "very disrupted" on T3b.
Regarding RER A, operated jointly by SNCF and RATP, the two groups will run 4 trains out of 5 at peak times, 3 trains out of 5 during off-peak periods, with the interconnection maintained at Nanterre Préfecture.
For RER B, also co-managed by SNCF and RATP, half of the trains will run with interconnection kept at the Gare du Nord, according to the two operators. The SNCF also plans 2 of 3 RER C trains in circulation, as well as half of the RER D and 8 RER E trains out of 10.
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