Due to the national call for strike on November 5, the SNCF is planning disruptions, in Ile-de-France the RATP is counting on "normal traffic"
The forecasts of the railway company and the Ile-de-France authority will be detailed on Wednesday, on the eve of the day of national mobilization launched by an inter-union association.
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The SNCF anticipates disrupted traffic due to the national call for a strike to defend wages and employment, Thursday November 5. “As part of the national inter-professional social movement, SNCF Voyageurs train traffic will be slightly disrupted on TGV links, and disrupted on Intercités, TER links and on Ile-de-France trains and RERs,” SNCF indicated in a brief press release on Tuesday, November 3. Its line-by-line traffic forecasts will be detailed late Wednesday afternoon.
All TGV and Intercités customers whose train is canceled "will be contacted again and will be able to benefit from the exchange or reimbursement of their ticket free of charge", adds the SNCF. Also read Blockages of high schools and universities, November 5 strike, yellow vest demonstrations… What are the mobilizations planned this week? The four unions representing the national railway company, CGT, Unsa railway, Sud Rail and CFDT, launched a united call for a 24-hour strike on November 5, joining the national slogan.
Their demands relate to an inflation catch-up for SNCF salaries. More broadly, the railway unions denounce a "regressive budget" which "will worsen poverty, cut Social Security, freeze civil servants' salaries and dry up resources for the ecological transition". Only line B of the RER will be affected in Ile-de-FranceIn Ile-de-France, the RATP indicated for its part that it expected “normal traffic” on its metro, tram and bus networks on Thursday.
On the RER lines it operates, traffic will be “normal” on line A and “disrupted” on line B, co-operated by RATP and SNCF, she said. RATP will also publish more detailed forecasts on Wednesday. “If the Paris police headquarters asks us to close stations, that does not stop the trains from running,” underlined an RATP official.
During the Saturday demonstrations of high school students, students and yellow vests, the prefecture requested the closure of several dozen metro stations to protect access to certain districts of the capital.
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