For the year 2022, the 1is May falls on a Sunday. In France, this date is a public holiday, it is Labor Day (and lily of the valley!).
There is no general rule concerning the operation or not of public transport services (bus, car, tram, metro, etc.) on the day of the 1is may. Each public transport network has its own operating schedule. When the network is working on 1is May, the timetables applied are often those specific to Sundays and public holidays. Before making a trip by public transport, it is therefore advisable to find out about the networks used.
In Île-de-France, the circulation or not on May 1 varies according to the carriers which operate the lines. This situation is gradually being reviewed by the Île-de-France Mobilités organizing authority. In 2023, all public transport services in Île-de-France should operate on May 1 according to public holiday timetables. In provincial urban transport, there is often a lack of transport supply.
The coaches of the BlaBlaCar Bus and Flixbus long-distance lines will run normally. For regional transport lines, traffic varies depending on the network.
Service provided on Sunday 1is May 2022
The public transport service will be provided in the agglomerations of:
- Paris (RATP): bus, tram and metro run
- Annecy (Sibra), lines and timetables for Sundays and public holidays
- Aulnay-sous-Bois (TRA)
- Chamonix
- Evry (Tice)
- La Baule / Guérande (Lilac Peninsula)
- Laon (TUL)
- Louviers (semo)
- Chin
- Metz (The Met)
- Montbéliard: only line 4 (link with the TGV station) runs, on Sundays and public holidays
- Nancy (Stan): Sunday timetable, free access
- Saint-Louis (Distribus): runs according to Sunday and public holiday timetables
- Saint-Malo (Mat network)
- Saint-Nazaire (Stran)
- Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Sqybus)
- Vichy
- Velizy
Possible disturbances: demonstrations on public roads
The functioning in these networks could be disrupted by the planned demonstrations. Diversions can be put in place.
No service on Sunday May 1, 2022
The public transport service is suspended on Sunday 1is May 2021 on the public transport networks of the following urban areas:
- Amiens (Amétis): no buses run
- Angers (Irigo): no bus and tram service
- Angouleme
- Antibes
- Arras
- Avignon: Sunday May 1 is the only day of the year when the Orizo network does not run
- Bayonne (Chronoplus): only day of the year when the network does not work
- Belfort: no service is provided
- Bordeaux (TBM): no trams or buses in circulation
- Bourges (aggloBus)
- Blois (Azalys)
- Brest (Bibus): tram, bus, cable car remain in the garage
- Caen (Twisto): no service
- Calais
- Cannes
- Chalon-sur-Saone
- Chambery
- Châteauroux (Horizon): the bus network will not run.
- Clermont-Ferrand (T2C): no service
- Colmar
- Dijon (Divia network): no bus or tram service is provided on May 1
- Grenoble: on May 1, the TAG network does not work
- La Rochelle (Yélo): no buses run
- La Roche-sur-Yon
- Lens (Tadao): no traffic on the network
- Le Havre (LiA): no service
- Le Mans (SETRAM): no buses or trams in circulation on the entire network
- Lorient: bus and boat lines do not work
- Limoges (TCL): no service
- Lille (ilevia): the lines do not run
- Lyon (TCL): the TCL network does not operate on May 1
- Martigues
- Maubeuge
- Montpellier (TAM): the network will not work
- Mulhouse: no Soléa network traffic on May 1
- Nantes (TAN): no service
- Nice
- Nîmes (Tango): the network does not run
- Orléans (TAO): the buses and trams of the Tao network do not run on May 1st on the occasion of Labor Day.
- Poitiers (Vitalis): no buses will run, with the exception of the flex’e-bus routes on lines C, 10, 13 and 27
- Reims (Citura)
- Rennes (STAR): the metro and the bus lines do not run, the relay parks are closed.
- Rouen (Tip network)
- Saint-Brieuc (TUB)
- Saint-Etienne (STAS)
- Saint-Quentin: the network does not work
- Strasbourg (CTS): Buses, Trams, Taxibuses do not run
- Thionville (Citéline): buses do not run on May 1
- Toulon: no buses and water buses
- Toulouse (Tisséo): Metro, Tram, Bus lines are suspended
- Tours (filbleu): the Bus + Tram network does not run
- Troyes: no bus will run on the network
- Valenciennes
- Valves
- Versailles: no service on Saturday May 1
In the Vaucluse, no circulation of the regional lines Zou! May, the 1st.
In the Normandy region, by coach in Calvados, Orne and Seine-Maritime. On the other hand, a few lines circulate in the Eure and the Channel.
Commercial agencies will also be closed.
Several hundred public transport networks exist in France. Consult the websites of the networks to obtain more information on the transport offer.
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