2023-04-16 13:32:00
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REPORTAGE – While the new contract for the Dakar TER between the SNCF and the Senegalese State is still not in place, a first strike has broken out. State of play of an achievement which should have been an international showcase for the SNCF.
Dakar station, at 6 p.m., as every day, it’s chaos: jostling, endless queues, general hubbub. It takes an hour to buy a ticket and almost as much to take a train. The SNCF, still 100% owner of the Société d’exploitation du TER de Dakar (Seter), is still unable to stem the enormous flow of passengers. “We are obliged to do detention on the forecourt of the station“, confessed a member of staff on site. The gendarmerie and the fire brigade, called to the rescue, have set up a security perimeter around the station, to force users to stay outside as long as there is too much queue to take a ticket, before leaving. line up again to get on the train. How did we come to such a situation?
Here is the route of the Dakar TER line. To cope with the high demand on the first part of the journey, the trains would have to make a U-turn. Which for technical reasons is only possible in Yeumbeul or Rufisque Seats
This is because the management of this new line – which goes from Dakar to Diamniadio – has chosen a typical operation “Metro“. Hear a train every 10 minutes throughout…
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