In Marseille
Marseille is a poor city and twice the size of Paris.
Key data to understand the puzzle that the pandemic is creating.
Its bus-metro-tram network records 800,000 passages every day;
around a third of Marseillais use public transport, taking into account work-home connections and return trips.
Despite the promiscuity at peak times, from a financial point of view, there is no other solution for most regulars.
It is no coincidence that the busiest bus line, the B2, is the one that serves the northern districts, with around 7,000 people per day.
Anaïs, an employee of a mutual health insurance, is afraid every time she goes on board.
“It's crowded.
We are packed like sardines.
The government is basking us with barrier gestures, there we are on the sidelines.
It is incomprehensible that they do not put more! ”
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The response from a manager of the Marseille Transport Authority (RTM) is scathing:
“The first
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