Traffic will be severely disrupted in Côte-d’Or, at SNCF and on the Divia transport network in Dijon this Thursday, December 5. The call for a strike against the pension reform promises to be very popular in Côte-d’Or, as at the national level.
In Dijon, the Divia network severely disrupted
The Dijon bus and tram network will very affected by the strike on Thursday 05 December. According to the information given this Tuesday evening, the trams will operate at idle: a tram every 15 minutes from 5.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m., instead of one every 4 to 7 minutes.
On the buses, no bus will run after 8 p.m. and during the day, the buses will pass approximately every half hour, when they pass. (see our full list of lines below).
Bus lines timetable in Dijon
- L3 30 min
- L6 30 min
- L4 45 min morning / 35 min afternoon
- L7 50 min
- L5 25 min
- B14 75 min
- B15 75 min
- B11 40 min
- B16 80 min
- B12 50 min
- B13 70 min
- F42 50 min
- Do not run at all: lines B10, B18 and Corol.
- Normal operation: Bus Class – Full Moon – City – B17, 19, 20, 21, 22 – P30, 31, 33 F40, 41 – Express – DiviAccess
At SNCF, only one train in ten
Slight disturbances from December 4
On the SNCF side, in Côte-d’Or, the strike will have effects from Wednesday, December 4 in the evening, with some “slight disturbances in Bourgogne Franche Comté de TER from 19:00”.
Strong regional disruption on December 5
In Burgundy – Franche – Comté, there will be only four round trips by TGV on Thursday, a single round trip from Intercités, between Paris and Clermont (via Nevers) and eleven round trips by TER. SNCf specifies that “traffic on the rest of the regional axes will be by coach (between 1 and 5 return trips depending on the axes)” and adds that “100 additional buses have been installed compared to the traditional offer“.
TGV
- 2 round trip Macon Loché TGV / Le Creusot TGV <> Paris
- 2 round trip Besançon / Dijon <> Paris
Intercities:
- Round trip Paris Clermont (via Nevers)
TUE :
- 4 round trip Dijon <> Macon,
- 3 round trip Dijon <> Montbard,
- 4 round trip Dijon <> Besançon.
Finally, there will be no traffic (neither bus nor train) on the Besançon TGV – Besançon Viotte axis, and the Dijon – Nevers – Tours axis.
One in ten trains nationwide
At the national level, we already know that traffic will almost stop. Only 10% of trains will run: one TGV out of ten will be in circulation. According to SNCF management, you have to “two to three round trips” Paris-Lyon, Paris-Marseille, Paris-Montpellier and Paris-Besançon, “six round trips” between Paris-Lille and only one return trip Paris-Strasbourg, Paris-Nancy, Paris-Metz, or Paris-Reims. It gets even more complicated on the side TER where only 3% of Regional Express Trains will run.
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