If the circulation of TGVs should be normal on Monday, disturbances are to be expected on certain regional lines.
The start of a week of galley for train users? SNCF drivers and controllers are called upon to strike this Monday, May 5 by the CGT to demand an increase in remuneration and better anticipation of the schedules. Sud-rail calls maintenance agents to mobilize on May 6, drivers on May 6 and controllers from May 9 to 11.
The repercussions of this social movement on traffic at the national level should nevertheless be light on Monday. If SNCF Travelers will not communicate the detailed traffic forecasts until this Sunday at 5 p.m., several union sources within the group indicate that the disturbances should be limited on May 5, even nonexistent.
Questioned by AFP, the CEO of SNCF Travelers, Christophe Fanichet even assured that “circulation will be normal from Monday 5 to Thursday 8 May on TGV”.
-Disruptions to be expected on TER lines
Disturbances located on certain regional lines or in Ile-de-France are however not excluded. On social networks, “disturbed traffic” from May 5 is for example already announced on the Transilian lines N and U. On line H, traffic will also be “disturbed” from this date “except between Pontoise and Creil”. The RER B and C lines also anticipate disturbances from Monday.
In the regions, the SNCF announces “normal traffic on all booking trains” between Paris-Saint Lazare and Normandy, as well as on trains without reservation between Paris and Rouen and Paris and Serquigny. The traffic will however be slightly disturbed on the Caen-Rouen, Caen-Lisieux and Caen-Rennes lines. He will finally be “very disturbed” on the Paris-Granville and Caen-Le Mans-Tours lines.
In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the traffic of trains “can be disrupted from Monday May 5,” it can be read on the SNCF site. Traffic is also announced “disturbed” in the Occitanie and Pays de la Loire regions.
In Franche-Comté, disturbances linked to the social movement should be light on Monday. “Replacement cars are planned. The rest of the Mobigo trains circulate normally,” said the SNCF. It will be a priori more complicated in New Aquitaine where “Train traffic will be very disrupted on Monday 5, Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7”. Same thing in Hauts-de-France where TER circulation will be “strongly” disturbed on Monday. Finally, traffic will be disrupted this Sunday, May 4 in the Center Val de Loire region.
