Black Thursday is confirmed at the RATP. The Paris transport authority unveiled, Wednesday, November 9, its traffic forecasts for the day of strike scheduled for Thursday. Metro and RER traffic will be “strongly disturbed” and that of buses and trams “disturbed”she confirmed.
In detail, five metro lines will be completely stopped (2, 8, 10, 11 and 12). The traffic will be “strongly disturbed” on “some” other lines, which will open only partially and only at peak times, between 7 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. then between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (3, 3bis, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7bis, 9, 13).
Automatic lines 1 and 14 will experience normal traffic “with risk of saturation”. However, several stations will be closed on line 1: Reuilly-Diderot, Bastille, Hôtel de Ville, Concorde, and Champs-Elysées Clémenceau.
On the RER A, only one in four trains will run at off-peak hours, and one in two at peak times. On the RER B, one in two trains will run during peak hours, compared to one in three during off-peak hours.
Two out of three buses will be in circulation on average, “with about twenty closed lines”. Finally, tram traffic will be “almost normal”with the exception of line T5, which will experience major disruptions.
This mobilization day had been planned for a long time at the RATP. The initiators of the movement are calling for an increase in wages and an improvement in working conditions, through recruitment.