RATP STRIKE MARCH 25. This Friday, March 25, 2022 in Paris, 5 metro lines will be very slightly disrupted, 30% of the buses will be at a standstill and one in two trams will only run during peak hours. RER A and RER B will provide normal traffic. Check tomorrow’s RATP traffic forecasts.
[Mis à jour le 24 mars 2022 à 18h23] This Friday, March 25, 2022 is a dark day for users of Parisian buses and trams. A third of Parisian buses are at a standstill all day, including the Roissybus, one out of two or three trams only run during peak hours. T8 traffic is completely interrupted. As for the metros, users will have less to worry about with only 5 slightly disrupted lines: line 2, line 7, line 8, line 9 and line 13. No RER is however impacted by this strike at the RATP . Find the traffic disruptions in detail below, line by line, or using the summary above on this page.
If this day of strike will have less impact on the disturbances than the previous one of February 18 when 80% of drivers went on strike in the Paris transport network, the RATP unions have however confided that the movement could be “unlimited”, everything will depend on negotiations between the RATP unions and management on a salary increase, which are currently at a standstill. Interviewed by BFM TV on Wednesday March 23, 2022, the president of the “Plus de trains” association fears that the movement will “continue”. “If we have to leave in one movement, it will be unlimited. Punctual and beaded movements have little impact”, had confided Bastien Berthier, metro driver of line 5 and member of the FO-RATP union, with BFM TV after the black day of February 18th.
This Friday, March 25, 2022, buses and trams are extremely disrupted, while the metros are slightly affected by this strike, with only 5 lines disrupted. On the RER side, nothing to worry about, all trains will run normally. Here are the March 25 disruptions in detail:
- Metro disruptions : this Friday March 25, 2022, lines 2, 7, 8, 9 and 13 will be slightly disrupted. On the other hand, traffic will be normal on all other lines. Here is the detail of the disturbances line by line:
- Line 1 : normal traffic
- Line 2 : 9 metros out of 10
- Line 3 : 9 metros out of 10
- Line 3bis : normal traffic
- Line 4 : normal traffic
- Line 5 : normal traffic
- Line 6 : normal traffic
- Line 7 : 9 metros out of 10
- Line 7bis : normal traffic
- Line 8 : 8 metros out of 10
- Line 9 : normal traffic
- Line 10 : normal traffic
- Line 11 : normal traffic
- Line 12 : normal traffic
- Line 13 : 9 metros out of 10
- Line 14 : normal traffic
- RER disruptions : Friday March 25, 2022, the RER A and B managed by the RATP will not encounter any disruption. RER C, D and E, managed by SNCF, are not affected by this strike.
- Bus disruptions : bus traffic is extremely disrupted this Friday, March 25, 2022, with 30% of lines interrupted. For open lines, an average of 1 bus out of 2 runs, with variations depending on the sector. The traffic of Noctiliens is almost normal. Discover the traffic of your bus line.
- Tram disruptions : Tram traffic is very disrupted, except for T4 and T11 managed by the SNCF. Here is the detail line by line:
- T1 : provide 1 tram out of 2 with a frequency of 10 minutes, only from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. and only between Gare de Noisy-le-Sec and Gare de Saint-Denis.
- T2 : plan 1 out of 3 trams with a frequency of 10 minutes at peak times and 20 minutes at off-peak hours, only from 6am to 10pm and only between Porte de Versailles and Puteaux.
- T3a : plan 2 trams out of 3 with a frequency of 5 to 6 minutes at peak times and 8 minutes at off-peak times, only from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 4.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
- T3b : provide 2 out of 3 trams with a frequency of 6 minutes at peak times, only from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and only between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Pantin.
- T4 : normal traffic because not concerned by the strike of March 25, being managed by the SNCF.
- T5 : provide 1 tram out of 2 with a frequency of 10 minutes, only from 5:30 am to 10 am.
- T6 : provide 1 tram out of 2 with a frequency of 10 minutes at peak times and 25 minutes at off-peak hours, only from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- T7 : provide 1 tram out of 2 with a frequency of 14 minutes, only from 6:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
- T8 : line completely closed, traffic interrupted all day.
- T11 : normal traffic, not concerned by the strike of March 25 because managed by the SNCF.
The traffic disruptions relating to the RATP strike begin this Friday, March 25, 2022 from the start of service, at 5:30 a.m. For buses and trams, the disruptions end until the end of service. Although the unions have announced their intention to go on an indefinite strike, for the moment there is no official information indicating that the movement will continue the next day.
After the dark day of February 18, the RATP unions (CGT RATP, FO-RATP, Solidaires RATP, UNSA RATP, CFE-CGC Groupe RATP, La Base groupe RATP) continue the mobilization on Friday March 25, 2022 in the metros to obtain a general salary increase. “Today, RATP’s economic and financial indicators are green. Agents do not accept that their budget is in the red, adding to the anxiety-provoking climate of the opening up to competition and the profound transformations of the company” explains the delegate of the CGT RATP Bertrand Hammache, in a letter to the president Catherine Guillouard relayed by The Parisian.
The agents of the buses and trams, “the surface networks”, will be massively mobilized, protesting against the consequences of the opening to competition of the RATP bus network from January 1, 2025. The UNSA, the CGT, FO, SAT and CFDT denounce in a joint press release these “company agreements” and “the contemptuous attitude of management in the face” of “claims for wage increases”.
This strike of March 25 could be unlimited, specifies the FO-Groupe RATP union, majority among metro drivers, in a communicated : “Without major inflection of the company, March 25 will mark the beginning of a long and hard action for the public service”. “The form that the movement should take and the question of an indefinite strike will be discussed in the coming weeks with the employees and not decreed by the trade unions beforehand”, had warned however the general secretary of the CGT-RATP.
RATP strike: where to consult real-time traffic forecasts?
Several tools are available on the Web to find out about upcoming traffic disruptions. To know the state of RATP traffic (metro, RER, bus, tram in real time), consult this page. For the RER, you can also follow the Twitter accounts @RERA, @RERB, @RERC, @RERD Where @RERE. To monitor train traffic in real time, visit the Transilien.