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How the mask became the unexpected cause of the rise in forgotten luggage

2021-11-26T18:25:10.592Z


DECRYPTION - Since November 1, French trains have lost half a million minutes due to abandoned packages.


The mask that we wear in public transport to fight against Covid does not only have beneficial effects.

According to the SNCF, it is partly at the origin of the spectacular increase in luggage forgotten in stations and wagons, causing a cascade of train delays or cancellations.

With the mask blocking the face, vision is hampered, according to the SNCF, and we no longer see what we have at our feet.

Suitcase, briefcase are then forgotten.

However, the health crisis means that the user is more burdened than before.

He now wears a bag containing his computer that he takes between home and his company to alternate teleworking and presence at the office.

The risk is to leave it in transport… The operations of control of the sanitary passes would disconcert the travelers who, according to the SNCF, would leave their effects.

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This forgotten luggage has become the main cause of disruption in TGVs.

With the risk of an attack and the strengthening of Vigipirate measures,

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Source: lefigaro

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