It is 4:20 p.m. this Monday on line 13. “Technically”, the evening rush hour only begins ten minutes later, with the increase in the number of trains in circulation that accompanies it.
But in Saint-Lazare, the platforms are already full of travelers waiting “shoulder to shoulder”.
And the trains which circulate towards the north (at the rate of a metro every two to three minutes on the central section, double on the Gennevilliers or Saint-Denis branches, before rush hour) are all already more than full when they enter the station.
“Wow, the world!
», worries a little girl who goes down the stairs towards the crowded platform, squeezing her mother's hand tightly.
“Yes, and it’s going to be like that all vacations,” the latter warns him.
The crowds, very unusual for a Monday at the start of the school holidays even on line 13, are in fact the direct consequence of the new closure for works on line 14. It will no longer welcome travelers until Monday February 26 to allow the replacement of the automatic piloting system of the trains, an essential prerequisite for its extension (to Saint-Denis in the north and Orly airport in the south) which must take place next June, on the eve of the Olympic Games.
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