2023-06-14 18:42:47
An operational incident at the Mairie-de-Montrouge station interrupted traffic on line 4 of the Paris metro from 6 p.m. on Wednesday June 14. The disruptions led to other incidents on the line in both directions of traffic.
As a result, five shuttles were stuck in the tunnel, causing the evacuation of passengers. The Incident “totally exceptional” is linked “to damage to a train”, said the RATP in a press release. An internal investigation, requested by the CEO of the Parisian Régie, Jean Castex, will have to “determine the exact causes of this rare incident”.
On the Twitter account of line 4the RATP communicates in real time on the state of train traffic, recognizing a situation ” very difficult “. Around 7 p.m., she announced “shuttles stuck in tunnel”before reporting, around 8 p.m., that two of them were “being evacuated by station agents”. Around 8:30 p.m., another RATP message posted on Twitter stated that “all shuttles blocked [étaient] being evacuated”. Operations were not fully completed by 9:20 p.m., according to an RATP spokesman.
The RATP has also made it known that “firefighters went to Montparnasse to welcome people in difficulty”as well as in Saint-Placide, a station located in the 6e arrondissement.
Line 13 also at a standstill
Journalist Laurent Bazin, present in one of the metro trains stuck in a tunnel, described on Twitter “a crowded train with 35 degrees and babies on board” and reported that passengers were trying “to force the doors”. Another journalist, Camille Thomaso, published her a video of passengers getting off the tracks. Other passengers posted photos and messages trying to raise awareness of the situation.
Some of them claimed to have been stuck on the tracks for over an hour. Others reported “armoured oars”, “without air conditioning”of “panicked people”. In its press release, the RATP “Express all its apologies and deepest regrets for this event and its consequences”.
Around 9 p.m., the Twitter account of line 4 made it known in a message in response to a user, that “as long as the trains are not all evacuated”it was not possible “to give a recovery estimate” traffic. The same Twitter account also tried to call for calm from passengers stranded in the oars ” to assure [leur] security “.
Line 13 of the Paris metro has, for its part, announced on his Twitter account interruption of traffic on the entire line following“a technical problem”and provided for a resumption of it « vers 21 h 30 » before pushing it back to 11 p.m.
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