2023-12-11 07:16:00
Punctuality not always there and clear increase in rail fares: SNCB is expanding its train offering
The case of Christelle, living in Tamines, in the province of Namur, is just one example among many, but it alone demonstrates the inconvenience caused recently by the rail. “I am a teacher in Saint-Gilles,” she confides. I have been traveling daily between Tamines and Brussels for 23 years.”
But in recent years, she has observed a “flagrant” deterioration in the service. “Trains are regularly late or canceled. Sometimes he falls so late that he stops at Luttre. Then it’s up to us to manage to get home.”
Result: the teacher had no choice but to reorganize her daily life. “If I want to be sure of arriving at school for the start of classes, I have to leave to take the 5:51 a.m. train. Of course, I might take the 7:23 one. But, with the current delays and deletions, almost weekly if not daily, it’s a risk that I can no longer take. So I have to leave 1h30 early.”
One in five trains was late in November
In the end, the Taminoise arrives at school around 7:20 a.m. “I take the opportunity to prepare for lessons, make photocopies… It’s not purely wasted time but I admit that I would do without taking the train so early. But with this uncertainty regarding trains, I have no choice.”
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