To city dwellers who - perhaps - were on the way to forgetting it, the SNCF strikers took it upon themselves to remind them last weekend: the vast east of France, from east to west and from north to south, when , for lack of transport, distances stretch.
When Marseille is no longer less than three and a half hours from the "capital", but a long day's drive;
or that joining their loved ones in the countryside around Vannes no longer requires two hours, but at least three times longer - for the lucky ones who will have been able to climb into a bus or slip into the back of a carpool bringing them closer near the goal.
The France of the big cities, the one that ran in TGV moccasins in airports, is in turn experimenting with trampling.
The inhabitants of Saint-Just-en-Chaussée or Monestier, rural dwellers and commuters have known this for a while: Intercités, TER, RER… transport is now more unpredictable than the weather!
“Peripheral France” no longer counts…
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