The SNCF social movement will affect two RER lines and three Transilians in the Paris region this Monday, May 5, on the first day of a week which promises to be complicated in transport.
The CEO of SNCF Travelers assures that all TGVs will drive until May 8 inclusive.
Patience will be the mother of all virtues among rail users. Under the threat of an SNCF strike, traffic may be delicate all week. Ile-de-France is particularly concerned by this social movement with traffic “Strongly disturbed” This Monday, May 5 on two RER lines and three Transilians. If the RER A, the most frequented in Europe, is spared, this is not the case with its neighbor, the B, which will count “one train in 2 on the northern part” of RER B “and 2 trains out of 3 on the southern part”. But good news, the interconnection at Gare du Nord is maintained.
The same frequency of one in 2 train is expected on the RER C and on lines N, U and V of the Transilien. Traffic will be “slightly disturbed” On the RER with “4 trains out of 5”, Then “disturbed” on line H, with some expected deletions “Except between Pontoise and Creil”. The forecast at the national level have not yet been communicated by the SNCF, but several union sources or within the SNCF provide AFP that the disturbances should be limited on Monday.
Monday is the first day of a week marked by several calls for the South Rail strike and the CGT-Cheminots on issues of remuneration and work organization, with the highlight of a strike of the controllers which promised to be followed in the middle of bridge weekend of 8-May. “We are far from a dark week, there will be no week at a stop, but a week as normal as possible”said the CEO of SNCF Travelers Christophe Fanichet, according to whom “Circulation will be normal from Monday 5 to Thursday 8 May on TGV”.
