REPORT – Technical incident, operating problem, signaling failure… Parisians hate the RATP, which is increasingly failing.
In her hand, Clémence holds open a novel, The Charterhouse of Parma, but she doesn’t read it: the young woman glances too frequently at the luminous panel to stay focused. It is a little after 8 a.m. on Monday and in Strasbourg-Saint-Denis, on the quay in the direction of Balard, a metro must arrive in one minute for three minutes. “It stresses me out: every time I expect a problem”explains the documentalist.
It won’t be this morning. A minute later, the train arrives safely at the dock. But the travelers give him a dull look. The cars are full, the faces of the passengers almost glued to the windows. Admittedly, two people go down by the door which opens in front of Clemence. But eight go up. The account is not there and you have to push, ask forgiveness and push again.
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At Richelieu-Drouot rides Baptiste, 22, a student at the Ecole du Louvre. He smiles: at least he’s back. “Last Saturday, I couldn’t take the
line 8. With a friend, we waited eighteen minutes…
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