Courier Mantes 
SNCF: the great anger of passengers Thursday, February 3 The Users Committee SNCF Mantois, combined with other groups of passengers who travel the Paris-Mantes, led an unprecedented operation to the Gare Saint-Lazare. Travelers are tired of being transported like cattle and they have indicated loudly. Their first claim: the classification of the Paris-Mantes-Rouen among "sick lines" which must have a contingency plan.
Tired of being transported like cattle EVENT. The anger of the users who are tired of being "transported like cattle," reached a rare degree. They discovered a new force in participating on Thursday morning in Saint-Lazare, coordinated action by four associations. 8 o'clock Thursday morning, Gare Saint-Lazare. Four trains involved in the action spectacular designed by users' associations. As if on cue, the train Bonnières is announced with a delay of twenty minutes. An event banal, almost daily. Yet travelers come out of the train specifically put together to have, once again, traveled standing
"packed like sardines" . But the metaphor of the day is more than bovine fishmonger: since the SNCF transports us like cattle, say the disgruntled users, we will form a herd, bellowing and our displeasure. This was done with a success never before achieved in this station. The demonstration on March 11, 2010 was a dress rehearsal. The railway
solidarity Travelers are increasingly unhappy but also better organized. With associations to Norman Bueil Any Vap'Eure and Vernon Train of Life, the committee Mantois formed last year the Assembly of user associations Paris Saint-Lazare (AAUPSL). This Assembly was joined Thursday by the association of users of the station Bernay. 2000 passengers, possibly more, took part in the action. What is new is the growing support of elected officials posted in the region and organizations of railway workers, CGT, and Southern Rail.
Paris-Rouen line "sick"
invited by the station at a meeting in Saint-Lazare Thursday, February 10, user associations of the line announced that they would make it not. "
The letter we sent Bonnepart Roland (*), the director of the St. Lazare area, is completely off base denounced Louis Gomez, Committee Chair Mantes-Bonnières.
To explain delays, he talks of dead leaves on the road, snow, strikes by railway workers. SNCF has not taken the measure of the problem. She does not understand the situation that we are breaking. " associations accept to participate in this meeting that if their demands are made to order Dujour. The first of them: the Paris-Caen (**) also is part of the "sick lines" identified by the SNCF, which should benefit from a "plan to strengthen the quality."
"We can not say, as does the SNCF President Guillaume Pepy, the line from Paris to Caen is sick and pretend at the same time as that of Rouen, which borrows the same section of Paris to Mantes, is no not! " ton Louis Gomez.
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(*): The mail sent by Roland Bonnerpart is available on our forum at the following address:
http://usagersgares.asrun.eu/viewtopic.php?pid=288 # P288 (**): A shell that is slipped into the article. This is the Paris-Rouen, not Paris-Caen which is already part of the 12 sick lines.
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