Failures at the RATP: the mistigri of policies

On the failures of the RATP, this dismissal of the hot potato between politicians adds to the anger of those who are only wrong to hope to enter a train and arrive on time at their school or their place of work. AURORE MESENGE/AFP

ANALYSE – Dreams only exist in the unconscious of those who dream them. The reality is that for its users, the public transport nightmare lasts.

Let’s have a dream. Faced with the situation in the Paris metro and bus, Valérie Pécresse, Clément Beaune, Jean Castex and Anne Hidalgo decided to react and act together. Faced with the exasperation of users, the boss of the Île-de-France region, the Minister of Transport, the president of the RATP and the mayor of Paris have finally agreed to stop the stupid game of mistigri and to share the responsibility to get back to normal as soon as possible.

But dreams only exist in the unconscious of those who have them. The reality is that the nightmare lasts, that public transport users endure and that the “It’s not me, it’s another” policies persist. And this dismissal of the hot potato adds to the anger of those who are only wrong to hope to enter a train and arrive on time at their school or their place of work. When it comes to inaugurating a station, a station, a section, everyone jostles in the photo and claims the paternity of the projects…

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