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The cacophony of public transport deepens the inexorable isolation of the regions with Paris

2022-12-27T16:49:52.523Z


INVESTIGATION - Cancellations of trains, delays… Exasperated, the French are living a daily nightmare to reach the capital.


Pages and pages of Excel tables.

Small orange, red boxes that punctuate a green calendar, filled with numbers and percentages.

Since April, Lionel has been recording on his computer all the train delays and cancellations of which he has been the victim, he who makes the journey daily between Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, in the Oise, and Paris.

Finally… until November.

Because, after a first burn-out, two years ago, he has been arrested for three weeks for

“depressive state”

.

Repeated delays, impromptu cancellations, overcrowded trains, dilapidated lines, contradictory messages from the SNCF, the substitute bus that does not come... In Hauts-de-France - which hold the national record for the number of trains in delayed or deleted - but also in Limousin, in Normandy, in

"peripheral France"

so well described by the geographer Christophe Guilluy, users are overwhelmed.

Between the

“adapted transport plans”

(PTA, alternatives to compensate…

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Source: lefigaro

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