Tuesday March 28 will mark the 10th day of mobilization against the pension reform, since the start of the mobilization on January 19 and after the adoption of the text in the Assembly by 49.3 on March 16. Here is a summary of the disruptions in transport and in schools.
At the SNCF
Train traffic will be “severely disrupted” on some network lines on Tuesday. The SNCF announces 3 TGV out of 5, 1 TER out of 2 and still difficulties in Ile-de-France, management indicated on Monday.
SNCF Voyageurs recommends that travelers who can cancel or postpone their journeys scheduled for that day. This will be the fourth week of a renewable strike launched by the railway workers’ union as part of the interprofessional mobilization. The disturbances announced will however be less than during the previous day of mobilization, last Thursday.
The company plans to run 60% of its TGV Inoui and Ouigo and a quarter of its Intercités on Tuesday, but no night trains. Traffic will be “near-normal” for Eurostar and Thalys, according to a press release. SNCF Voyageurs expects the best on Wednesday, but warns that train traffic “will remain disrupted on certain lines”.
On the competition side, Trenitalia announces the elimination of 4 trains out of 10, namely the round trips Paris-Lyon and Paris-Lyon-Milan at the end of the day.
Traffic will also be very disrupted in Ile de France. On the SNCF Transilien side, there will be 1 train out of 3 on the RER C, 2 trains out of 5 on the RER D, and 1 train out of 2 on the SNCF part of the RER A and B. The RATP is planning 3 trains out of 5 on its side on its RER lines A and B. On line R, 3 out of 5 trains are announced. On lines H, J, L, P and U, it will be 2 out of 3 trains.
At the RATP
On the metro side, the lines will be open, and automated lines 1 and 14 will operate normally, as well as 3bis, 7bis and 9. Three quarters of the service will be provided on the rest of the lines, except on lines 3 and 10 but also 5 and 8 in the morning, or half of the subways will be removed. Some lines will only be partially open. 2 and 13 will close at 8:00 p.m. and 8 will be closed between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Finally, a number of stations, particularly along the route of the planned event between the Republic and the Nation, will be closed. From 8:00 p.m., other stations such as Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau, Invalides, Barbès-Rochechouart, Pigalle or Stalingrad will in turn close their doors.
However, bus and tram traffic will be normal. The Ile-de-France Mobilités regional transport authority (IDFM) calls on Ile-de-France residents who can to telecommute and offers, as usual in such circumstances, carpooling on the BlaBlaCar Daily, Karos and Klaxit platforms.
In the airline industry
Since Friday March 24 and until Wednesday March 28, around a third of flights have been canceled at Paris Orly, and several regional airports have been affected due to the air traffic controllers’ strike. This Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29, 20% of flights will be assigned to Orly, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) announced on Friday evening.
Since the beginning of the social movement, the DGAC has been regularly forced to ask airlines to give up part of their flight program departing from and arriving at certain airports, to adapt it to the number of air traffic controllers at their post and avoid even greater disruption.
“For the first time since the beginning of the social movements linked to the pension reform”, the connections to Corsica, known as “public service lines” in the name of territorial continuity, are concerned, deplored Air Corsica, forced to cancel three connections to the island on Sunday.
Beyond the airports, work stoppages by air traffic controllers also affect the Air Navigation En Route Centers (CRNA), which manage aircraft outside the take-off and landing phases and which transit through French airspace. . They therefore have repercussions on all European traffic.
In schools and secondary
The Snuipp-FSU teachers’ union once again called for a strike for this 10th day of mobilization, and announced 10% strikers in primary schools on Tuesday. Mobilization seems to be slowing down in education, with a lower estimate than in previous mobilization days. Nothing has been announced on the college and high school side, but the last day of the strike on March 23 caused the strike of 24% of teachers in colleges, and around 15% in high schools.