ACCIDENT: The incident took place at Gaîté station, on line 13, in Paris last night A man and a woman died overnight from Wednesday to Thursday after being hit by a metro train in Paris, we learned from firefighters and the RATP. The people were homeless. Around 12:45 a.m. at the Gaîté metro station (14th arrondissement), “two people […]
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TRANSPORT: The RATP estimates that the service on the Parisian metro lines will remain, for its part, “still very degraded” A slight improvement in traffic is expected this Wednesday in the RER and buses, for the second consecutive day of strike in Parisian transport against the pension reform. The RATP nevertheless provides for a still very degraded service […]
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EPIDEMIC: More information on these traffic conditions will be given during the weekend The RATP and the SNCF warned Friday that a “tight supply” transport would be established next week because of the outbreak of coronavirus. Some of the staff of the two groups will indeed not be able to work, being for some obliged to stay at home looking after their […]
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The trade unions plan to conduct a new large-scale inter-professional strike as early as next week against the pensions reform The strike against pension reform entered its second month on Friday 3rd January 2020. “Determined”, the unions call to make Saturday 11th January, a “day of demonstration throughout the country”. Amplify the movement FO , which requests the withdrawal […]
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The strikers protesting the pension reform met around 4 a.m. at the RATP bus depot in Créteil on Friday. This Friday morning, activists and strikers protesting against the government’s pension reform project met in Val-de-Marne, in Créteil. They participated in a blockage of the RATP bus depot located in the city. The departmental union of […]
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Airbus and RATP will study the integration of flying vehicles in urban transport: “this is no longer science fiction,” says the aircraft manufacturer of Toulouse. Details. Imagine. From Toulouse airport , your Airbus A320 lands in Paris-Orly . From there, a flying vehicle allows you to reach the Capital safely, in less than ten minutes, avoiding traffic jams. This crazy project is called City Airbus . It is a flying […]
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Paris public transport will be disrupted Thursday 19 and Friday 20 April following the call to strike CGT-RATP The CGT-RATP has filed a strike notice from Wednesday 18th April, 2018 at 10pm to Saturday 21st April, 2018 at 7am. “We call on all RATP agents to mobilise on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th April 2018 and to […]
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RAIL TRANSPORT: Three unions have called for a strike in solidarity with the railway workers … That the Parisians reassure themselves, transport should be “almost normal” this Thursday. The traffic of subways, RER, buses and trams of the RATP will be little disturbed by the call to strike launched by three unions, said Tuesday by the Paris transport authority in a statement. […]
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Agents of the RATP and SNCF will work in civilian clothes and be armed from Saturday 1st October, under a decree published Friday in the Official Journal, which will be implemented in the coming months. These “patrols” will be “empowered and trained to shoot.” The text provides for “the extension of the exemption from wearing […]
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