During his speech before the National Assembly, this Tuesday afternoon, Edouard Philippe announced his recovery plan for public transport during the deconfinement, set for May 11.
After clarifying that he wanted operators to go back to their offers as much as possible (70% at RATP, 50% at SNCF), that employers should favor telework and announced that the mask would be mandatory on networks, he said discussed social distancing.
"We have the impression that the Prime Minister never took the metro!"
"The capacity of the Paris metro will be drastically reduced," warned the Prime Minister. One seat out of two will have to be condemned, promote good social distancing by markings on the ground and prepare to limit flows. "
Measures, identical to those applied in the Milan metro (Italy) for a few days, which do not fail to make users react.
"We have the impression that the Prime Minister never took the metro!" Annoys Bastien Berthier, delegate of the UNSA-RATP union who sits on the company's health, safety and working conditions committee. “One seat out of two is inapplicable and the RATP will not have the human resources to filter the entry of the trains. These are just announcement effects… ”
"It is like telling people not to take transportation ..."
Same concern on the part of the association Plus de Trains. "We are talking about seats, but I would remind you that it is mainly standing people who travel during rush hour," recalls Arnaud Bertrand, president of the association. There are sometimes 700 per train on the RER with 150 seats. How are we going to organize the filtering? Will there be a RATP agent on each platform? It announces a real headache for operators and it amounts to telling people not to take transport… ”
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Even if he is delighted that the Prime Minister spoke of a start-up which will be "with operators and users", Marc Pélissier, president of the association of transport users (AUT) in Ile-de- France, also says to himself "very perplexed. "A sticker on a seat or on the ground is good, but I'm waiting to see if they will be really respected," says this representative of metro users.
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For its part, the RATP has indicated that it will work with the transport organizing authority (IDFM), the region and the city hall of Paris to "readjust the offer and limit flows in order to make social distancing possible in particular rush hour ". Measures that will depend very much on the civic spirit of the users
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