After a black Tuesday, this Wednesday should be a little less so in Ile-de-France transport. According to RATP forecasts released on Tuesday afternoon, while France is facing numerous blockages aimed at countering pension reform, Wednesday should once again experience disruption, despite an announced improvement.
“Traffic for Wednesday March 8 should improve compared to March 7 with almost normal traffic on the Bus network and normal on the Tramway network”, indicates the RATP, evoking however a traffic “very disturbed on the RER and metro networks”.
As of Monday, the transport authority, which anticipated the renewal of the strike on Wednesday, forecast very disrupted traffic all day, with however improvements for buses and trams, while the SNCF also anticipated, for this second day of consecutive strike, a day “very strongly disturbed”.
On Wednesday, apart from lines 1 and 14 (automated) and 4, the other lines will only be partially open, but “all metro lines will be fully served on Wednesday at rush hour”, according to RATP. The RER will experience more regular traffic with two out of three trains on the A and one out of two on the B. Buses and trams will run almost normally.
Metro
Lines 1 and 14: normal traffic (14 will be closed at 10 p.m. due to works)
Ligne 2 : one train out of two at peak times, one out of three at off-peak hours (open from 5:30 a.m. until the end of service)
Ligne 3 : one in three trains (open from 5:30 a.m. until 8 p.m.)
Line 3a: two out of three trains at morning rush hour, closed in the afternoon
Ligne 4 : almost normal traffic (the line will be closed at 10:15 p.m.)
Ligne 5 : one in three trains (open from 5:30 a.m. until the end of service)
Ligne 6 : one in three trains (open from 5:30 a.m. until 10 p.m.)
Ligne 7 : one train out of three at peak times, one out of four at off-peak hours (open from 5:30 a.m. until the end of service)
Line 7a: one train out of three at peak times, one out of four at off-peak hours (open from 5:30 a.m. until the end of service)
Ligne 8 : partial opening and only during extended rush hours, between Reuilly Diderot and Créteil Pointe du Lac and between Balard and Concorde, between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., as well as between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., one train out of three. Some stations will be closed
Ligne 9 : every other train (open from 5:30 a.m. until the end of service)
Ligne 10 : every other train (open from 5:30 a.m. until 8 p.m.)
Ligne 11 : three out of four trains at morning rush hour, one out of two trains at off-peak hours, two out of three at evening rush hours (open from 5:30 a.m. until 10 p.m.)
Ligne 12 : one in three trains (open from 5:30 a.m. until the end of service)
Ligne 13 : one in three trains (open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
RER
RER A : on average two out of three trains, with an interconnection maintained at Nanterre prefecture
RER B : on average one in two trains, with an interrupted interconnection at Gare du Nord
RER C : on average one in five trains
RER D : on average one in five trains
RER E : on average one in five trains
Jumping over
In the Paris region, plan 1 train out of 3 on average on the portions of the RER A (the interconnection is maintained at Nanterre Préfecture station) and B (the interconnection is removed at Paris Nord station, you will have to change trains , with an end of service at 10:45 p.m. due to works) concerned by SNCF, as well as lines H, J, K, L and U of the Transilien network. It will take only 1 train out of 5 on lines N, P and R of the Transilien.
Bus et tramways
Normal traffic throughout the network. On average eight out of 10 buses will circulate on the whole network, indicates the RATP, which evokes a “normal” traffic on the Noctilien network.
Orlyval
Normal traffic