Regularity of the metro: aging trains, lack of drivers… why the RATP is struggling to recover

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2023-12-18 03:13:14

A year ago, when taking over the management of the RATP, Jean Castex promised to do everything to obtain improvements from spring 2024 on all metro lines. Twelve months later, it is clear that the little progress observed has not been consolidated since the start of the school year, for the most fragile lines.

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The number of these lines plunging below the 85% mark of trains per hour increased from three to five between September and October… “These are rates of irregularity which did not exist before Covid”, recalled Île- de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the transport authority in Île-de-France, chaired by Valérie Pécresse, on December 5. In other words, they are new. So, what’s wrong?

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