Another galley night for Ile-de-France residents. For user associations, solutions must quickly be put in place because many travelers end their journey on foot, sometimes even across fields…
“The decision is taken in conjunction with the police headquarters and transport operators in the Ile-de-France region: buses and trams will not run this evening from 9 p.m., to ensure the protection of agents and passengers”tweeted the president of Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), Valérie Pécresse.
“Our transports are not targets for thugs and thugs!”added the elected (LR), also president of the regional council.
For two days, users have struggled to return home after work or simply to travel between Paris, the small and the large crown. “Travelers are invited to anticipate their trip”explain the main operator in the region, the RATP. “But it is not that simple”specifies Marc Pélissier of the FNAUT (the National Federation of User and Transport Associations) “because some trams which were supposed to stop from 9 p.m. are in fact interrupted at 5.30 p.m. without warning! Difficult to organize in these cases.
People are caught off guard.
Marc Pélissier, President of the FNAUT
In front of the Garges/Sarcelles station, others waited for a bus that never came. When some take it philosophically”oh you shouldn’t have waited? Well I’ll have to walk”. Others are more angry: “I’ve been waiting for 30 minutes, I’ve come from Paris, Place des Fêtes. I was told that there were buses until 9 p.m.… In fact, no! This morning I had to come on foot because there was no more T5! 2 hours to go and 2 hours to return is a lot, after a day’s work you just want to go home.”
It was 4 a.m. that morning when the Noctilien arrived at Sarcelles station. • © PHOTOPQR/LE PARISIEN/MAXPPP
For Marc Pélissier, we really need more precise information upstream “and which is followed by the facts so that people are not presented with a fait accompli. We talk about buses or trams that stop their service at a certain time, the reality is sometimes quite different”.
Jonathan Magano of SADUR (Associative support for rebellious users) goes further and adds “In an exceptional situation, exceptional measures are needed. We are asking the line management to start the work in progress, particularly on lines B and D of the RER later in the evening in order to allow people to arrive more easily at them since there are no more substitute buses. The RER D still attracts 650,000 passengers per day”, he specifies.
And Marc Pélissier adds: “Is it really relevant and necessary to stop bus services in areas where there is no identified risk? For example in the villages in the depths of Île-de-France for example.”
After a day of work we feel like going home.
And just Noctilie. • © IP3 PRESS/MAXPPP/MAXPPP
Among the solutions to be found, Marc Pélissier cites a major problem to be solved: that of the Noctilien used by tens of thousands of travelers between midnight and 6am. “People, who, for many, work in shifts and who do not necessarily find carpooling at night. They have to pay for taxis, it’s a real issue.”
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