While Emmanuel Macron has just announced a national reconfinement this Wednesday evening
"until December 1 at least"
, the SNCF site is currently encountering significant difficulties.
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Difficult indeed to book a trip.
An error message
: "We did not obtain any results for your search"
or
"Your request was not successful.
Please renew it in a few moments.
For more information, our advisers are at your disposal.
Thank you for your understanding ”is
displayed regardless of the day, time and destination of the reservation.
A bug which is not unrelated to the televised address of the President of the Republic.
The latter has, in fact, announced the establishment of a new national confinement from this Thursday midnight.
What to worry all the French left for the holidays of All Saints and having to return precipitately.
But also arouse desires elsewhere for Parisians, many to have favored other regions for their confinement.
They therefore rushed to the SNCF site to check the trains, check that theirs were well maintained or book a trip, explains the press service of the rail network contacted by
Le Figaro
.
"We expected it, we had envisaged this peak in attendance,"
says one, assuring that the online service should return completely to normal by 23 hours.
In addition, the SNCF confirmed in a
press
release that
"TGV INOUI, OUIGO, Intercités, international trains and regional trains will all run as planned this Thursday October 29, Friday 30, Saturday 31 and Sunday November 1"
"to ensure the returns from the All Saints holidays in the best conditions for the French in this particular period ”.
200 kilometers of traffic jams
By train or by road, Parisians are looking to leave Île-de-France as shown by the 400 kilometers of cumulative traffic jams recorded in the region this Wednesday afternoon.
If it is impossible to explain such traffic, the confinement that was looming then seems to be a serious avenue of explanation.
According to an INSEE study relayed by
Liberation
last March, 580,000 to 610,000 people left Paris intramural shortly before and a few days after the date of confinement on March 17, or a quarter of the Parisian population "
present overnight before the start of confinement
”.
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A situation which was explained, according to the Institute, according to three situations: “
residents of other French departments passing through Paris have left, for nearly 40% of the decrease;
of Parisians moved to another territory, for nearly 33% of the decrease (ie 11% of Parisian residents);
and foreigners passing through Paris returned home for nearly 28% of the decrease,
”quotes
Liberation,
which concludes that 200,000 Parisian residents have therefore left the capital in total.