Who can make you prefer the train? The fear of a strike at the SNCF during the end-of-year celebrations has been confirmed and the prospect of struggling in transport or canceling one’s vacation obviously does not please anyone. Despite pressure from the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, at the head of SNCF, the outlook for train traffic remains very poor. In Hauts-de-France, the social movement of the controllers will mainly have repercussions on the TER network, which will be “strongly disturbed”.
If, at the national level, the rail carrier estimates that two out of five TGVs will run over the Christmas weekend, we seem better off on the scale of Hauts-de-France. According to the regional management of the SNCF, “one in two trains will run from December 23 to 26, with almost normal traffic on Paris-Lille”, we learned on Thursday.
Regional links under tension
On the other hand, if you were planning to leave the car for the benefit of the TER to go and eat turkey at your mother-in-law’s, it is better to plan a plan B. Without advancing on a number of trains, the regional direction of the SNCF plans a ” heavily disrupted traffic” for TER-GV as well as on normal TER on December 24 and 25. It will be all the more tense “on departure and arrival from Paris Nord at the end of the day”, specifies the carrier.
The best and only advice that SNCF Voyageurs gives its customers is to avoid going to the station before having checked, from 5 p.m. the day before the trip, if their train is maintained.