"These bracelets are an experiment and it prevents travelers from going to search several times for their certificates recorded in their phones", one explains to the management of the SNCF.
While some holidaymakers find the method practical, others feel a little "stuck", like Camille, who does not adhere to this paper bracelet on her wrist, even if she considers that "the sanitary pass in the stations is a good one. thing to limit the spread of the virus ”.
Sensitive communication
The choice of words.
To check the passes and compulsory tests to travel since Monday, August 9, SNCF prefers the word "verification" to the word "control".
But in the absence of sesame, the result is the same.
The traveler stays at the platform or… Go take a test at the pharmacy in the station or in the tent set up along platform 23.
"The health pass is an incentive to get vaccinated," the Minister of Transport reaffirmed Monday morning.
“Personally, I am clearly part of this category” admits Bénédicte, in Hall 2. Like Eric or Hortense, who answer journalists' questions, she was vaccinated to get around easily.
Nearby, Giovani, does not agree at all.
“I am prepared to do tests every three days for three years, to avoid getting vaccinated.
Even if it means sacrificing my nose!
She jokes.
Not sure she says the same when the tests become paid.
A quarter of the trains will be checked
"We have targeted trains, because it is impossible to control the hundred or so TGVs that leave or arrive every day at Gare de Lyon" explains Didier Senechal, responsible for setting up sanitary facilities at Gare de Lyon.
For his part, the minister, who came this Monday morning, said "that an assessment would be carried out at the end of the day, then in the middle of the week, to adjust" the instructions for use.
