Nantes: Very Large Transportation Disruptions Thursday

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There will be disruptions to the transport services in Nantes today due to strike action

Reinflate the tires on your bike or do you buy good shoes. Due to a national strike to protest against the new proposed Labour Bill, public transport in Nantes will be severely disrupted on Thursday.

First, according to Semitan, one third of the operating crew will be on strike.  Consequently, the service will be provided (though it will stop at 22:30) but the frequency will be greatly elongated: it will wait for example between 6 and 8 minutes for a tram or busway, between 12 and 15 minutes for a Chronobus … Network yellow buses run on schedule.


The situation should be even more tense in the city centre since a new demonstration is planned from 10:30am.  Like last week, the transport network will set up a special device with moving the terminus of the centre to the edge of the city ​​where information officers will be present. Several sections will be cut.

From the early morning, several lines (the 1 and 4 in particular) are disturbed by high school demonstrators. Result of all these disturbances, the city faces serious congestion.

Finally, SNCF announced, too, a very Traif pertrurbé on the regional network of the Loire Valley: TER 1 to 3 and 3 to 4 TGV circulate during the day Thursday.

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