- Wearing a mask is now compulsory in transport, under penalty of a fine of 135 euros.
- In Ile-de-France, a certificate is also compulsory during peak hours but has not yet been verified.
- The transport minister nevertheless announced on Sunday that controls would not start until Wednesday.
Céline dreamed about it all night. Or rather a nightmare. "I was really afraid of going back to line 13, it is so saturated on a daily basis that I feared that we were all crushed against each other," confides this hostess, her face hidden behind a large mask. After two months of partial unemployment, she had to return to work. But on this first day of deconfinement, the much-feared rush in Parisian public transport did not take place. In the wagons, even at rush hour, there are, on Monday morning, rarely more than fifteen people.
At Saint-Lazare station, on the platform of line 13 of the metro, the busiest of the network, there are almost as many agents responsible for enforcing the new safety regulations as for users themselves. "We expected it to be worse, but except on the Saint-Denis branch where there are a few more people than during confinement, on the rest of the line, it changes little from the previous days" , says one of them. To cope with this recovery, RATP put 85% of the trains on this line into circulation. The only quirk, and not least, an infiltration of water between the Carrefour Pleyel and Mairie de Saint-Ouen stations delayed several trains, causing a very heavy crowd in certain trains. According to RATP, the problem was resolved around 7:30 a.m.
"People are more disciplined than I feared"
Marcelle never stopped taking transport throughout the health crisis. Auxiliary of life, the forties has an average of two hours of travel per day. This Monday morning, fearing a large crowd, she took the RER D to Villiers-le-Bel, in Val-d'Oise, half an hour earlier than usual. To finally realize that his wagon was almost empty. “There were days during the confinement where there were more people than today. Above all, she notes, users scrupulously respect barrier gestures. "Everyone is careful not to get too close to each other, I hope it will last. "
"It's rather a good surprise, people are much more disciplined than I feared," says Eric, getting off line 3 of the metro, almost empty. Since this Monday, the mask is mandatory in Ile-de-France transport. At each entrance to Saint-Lazare station, security agents or SNCF and RATP teams are responsible for filtering entries. If the employers' certificates are not verified, no user returns unless he is equipped with a mask. "Everyone abides by this rule," says Amine, security guard. Since this morning, we have had no problem at that level. And for those who were not yet equipped, the Ile-de-France region organized a distribution near the station.
On the other hand, notes the security guard, social distancing is much more difficult to enforce. “Users are so used to sticking to escalators, it's like they are magnetized! »About a hundred meters away, at an entrance to the station leading to commuter and main line trains, the observation made by a SNCF security officer is identical. “The mask is fine, the real problem is social distancing. As soon as a RER arrives, there is a big wave of entries and exits. Because if the trains are much less used than usual, they nevertheless transport dozens of people who find themselves at the same time on a sometimes relatively narrow platform. And in these cases, difficult to enforce the famous rule of "one meter".
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