8:30 am, line 6. The metro has just left, and the platform is already crowded.
Two minutes later, the newly arrived train is full.
"It's boring," says Charlotte, seeing the abundance of users in the middle of a period of confinement.
"It's a bit strange to find yourself in a crowded metro when we are told that we are not allowed to go out."
On Karim's side, the disappointment is great.
There is "no seat".
However, according to RATP figures, attendance is 50% compared to normal traffic in the metro during rush hour.
But if the crowd is strong early in the morning, the situation changes from 10 am Still on the same line, the platforms are empty. In the trains, all users are seated. On the public carrier, the drop in metro use varies from 70% during the day to 85% in the evening. A figure, admittedly low, but during the first confinement, the frequentation of the metropolitan was only 5 to 10% of the normal attendance.