“Travellers who can are invited to cancel or postpone their trips and to favor teleworking”, underlined the SNCF in its press release, while a renewable strike was launched on Tuesday at the call of all the unions of railway workers once morest pension reform.
During the day, three out of five Inoui and Ouigo TGVs are expected to run and traffic will be “severely disrupted” at the regional level, with one out of two TER on average.
In the Paris region, traffic will remain very degraded on the R line of the Transilien, with only 20% of trains in circulation, and complicated on the RER D also with two trains out of five.
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High-speed traffic will be particularly reduced on the northern axis, with 40% of trains eliminated. More than two-thirds of the trains will run on the east and Atlantic axis and half of the traffic will be provided on the south-east axis.
As on previous days, province-to-province connections will be almost non-existent, with three out of four TGVs removed.
A third of the Intercités trains will run on Monday and all those running overnight from Monday to Tuesday have been canceled.
International routes less affected
International traffic is the least disrupted, with almost normal Eurostar and Thalys traffic. Two-thirds of the trains will run between France and Italy, four out of five connections will be maintained with Germany and one out of two with Switzerland.
The France-Spain link will be completely interrupted on Monday, however, said the SNCF.
Reform passed by the Senate
The Senate adopted the pension reform on Saturday evening, following ten days of heated debate.
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Next step, the Joint Joint Commission (CMP) composed of 7 senators, 7 deputies and just as many substitutes will try to find a compromise on Wednesday behind closed doors.
But this will not be the last step in the legislative journey of reform. It will be voted once more on Thursday morning by the Senate and in the followingnoon by the National Assembly. The result will then be final.
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