The association La Vignette du Respect almost shouts victory: "It's almost won for the compensation of users of line C of the RER", she rejoices.
Ile-de-France Mobilités, the organizing authority for transport in Ile-de-France has in fact recognized that following the fall of a beam on the rails of the RER C last December, "the situation, with regard to its repercussions, is unacceptable ”.
She thus asks that "the most impacted travelers, that is to say the users working or living on the southern branches of the RER C, who had no alternatives and who no longer had access to the François library - Mitterrand, be reimbursed up to half a monthly subscription ”.
She also considers that "this reimbursement is not the responsibility of Ile-de-France Mobilités or the SNCF but those responsible for the accident".
The transport organizing authority therefore wrote to Vinci Construction to ask it to cover this reimbursement.
She claims to have "also asked SNCF Réseau and SNCF Voyageur to carry out all the litigation procedures necessary to obtain this reimbursement, in parallel with the reimbursement requests they incur for the costs that the accident caused for them (repair work, loss of revenue…) ”.
A demand also from impacted RER D travelers
RER D users have also requested compensation.
Some of them, to the south of the line, indeed take the RER C.
There, IDFM emits some nuances.
And specifies that "only users having the obligation to make correspondence with the southern branches of the RER C, because they work on this line, must be compensated".
It details as well as those for whom an alternative exists, (continue on the D to Paris and take line 14 for example) "they cannot claim a refund".
In all cases, it will be necessary to wait for the SNCF to find an agreement with Vinci Construction, in order to have the details of the compensation.
Contacted, the group responsible for the site, did not wish to speak.
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On December 1, a 370-ton concrete beam fell on the railway tracks between Austerlitz and François-Mitterrand library, interrupting traffic south of the line.
The incident occurred in the context of the creation of the new Rive-Gauche district.
The project aims to cover the railway tracks with a huge slab in order to create a new district of 7,500 homes, 745,000 square meters as well as 400,000 square meters of commerce.
