RATP strike: "severe disruption" to traffic on 18 February

RATP expects traffic to be "severely disrupted" by the strike action expected on 18 February. Most metro lines will be at a standstill on Friday.
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The strike on 18 February will cause major disruption to the RATP network, with a number of metro lines out of service.

Business travel in the Paris region is likely to be chaotic, to say the least, on Friday. A vast strike action forces the RATP to be recommended to " all passengers who are able to do so [to] postpone their travel on the network on that day ". And with good reason: the metro 2, 3bis, 5, 7bis, 8, 10, 11 and 12 will be abolished. interrupted Friday. The other lines will be limited to a peak hour operation - i.e. from 6.30am to 9.30am and then from 4.30pm to 7.30pm - with severe traffic disruption and a route that has sometimes been cut back. Only line 14 will be running normally, although there is a logical risk of saturation.

RATP The trend is the same for the RERThe trains will run between 6.30am and 8.30pm. RATP expects one train out of every 2 during rush hour on the RER A and Bcompared with 1 in 3 at off-peak times. What's more, 2 out of 3 buses should be running on Friday. But RATP is already talking about " variations from one sector to another, up to and including closure of some lines ". Finally, on average 1 in 3 tramsThere are also disparities between lines.