" Strike? »Surprised Arthur, 29, teacher:« Honestly, in Lyon (Rhône), we experienced it in the newspapers! In a corridor of the metro, crowded, but not more than usual, we are far from the tensions of Paris. At the Part-Dieu station, after a month of dotted SNCF service which has embarrassed tens of thousands of daily users, it is nevertheless a relief. Since Monday, traffic has resumed with eight TGVs out of ten between Lyon and Paris, and an improvement on the TER network.
Bruno, who commutes every week between Lyon and Paris, experienced the strike with one foot in each city. "There are clearly two France who do not experience this strike in the same way" summarizes this entrepreneur. "On the one hand, you have the Paris region, with people who are sometimes forced to get up at 5 am to go to work with the D system. And it is the popular classes who suffer the most, because they cannot afford a taxi. And then, on the other side, the rest of France, like Lyon for example, where the strike is perceived as a fairly distant reality through the media. It is as if France finds itself in a schizophrenic situation "concludes Bruno before jumping on his TGV.
On the station platform, there is also Guillaume, an executive in a large group, also forced to make regular return trips with the capital: "It is true that it is quite destabilizing, in two hours, we go from a situation of insurrection in Paris, where it is daily war to climb in a metro and to find a taxi, with people who are at the end, and Lyon where we circulate normally. "
Coralie is waiting for her TGV to Paris. Coming to spend Christmas with family in Saint-Etienne, she is afraid of finding the tensions of the capital. "I have the impression that with this strike, people went crazy in Paris".
"My daily life has absolutely not changed with the strikes"
In Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) too, life is almost like usual. "I had an alarm clock there, I should be at work. It's going to do it because the trams are running! Anaïs, educational manager in a web marketing agency, is hardly stressed on this Monday of the start of the school year on a sparse quay in the fifth city of France.
Like this thirtieth year, the people of Nice will be able to use public transport this week without worry, except this Thursday, the day of national mobilization against the pension reform. "Here, it has nothing to do with what is happening in Paris," she continues. My daily life has not changed at all with the strikes. "
In any case, this does not do Guillaume's business. Nose in your smartphone to kill time, this bicycle taxi in Place Masséna bathed in sunshine and tourists awaits the customer. In vain: "I thought that the movement would bring me from the world, which is usually the case," he pleads. Well there, nothing, it's even rather negative. "
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If the trams and buses have run fairly well in Nice, on the other hand, economic activity is impacted by national social movements, notes Christophe, an antique dealer on the Cours Saleya market: "My transporter could never bring me back to the Christmas holidays of objects that were blocked by the disturbances in Paris, he says. I couldn't have had them in time to sell them… ”
People also had to face strikes by school staff. "I had to organize myself to take care of my two children, 2 and 4 years old," says Mélania. Without any hard feelings, says this work psychologist: “It has no common measure with Paris and I understand the movement! "
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