Across France, a national strike has been organized in response to the pension reform bill since Thursday, January 19, 2023, and the movement has a good chance of renewing itself. Therefore, the traffic of trains, TGV, metro, RER, buses and trams will be severely affected. Here is a selection of applications and services that will help you get around in the absence of RATP and SNCF public transport
The government is pushing to adopt its pension reform. In response, a large strike was organized and the social movement concerned the RATP and the SNCF in particular. Therefore, public transport will be seriously disrupted during the day of Thursday, January 19, 2023. As a precautionary measure, it is necessary to plan for a resumption of the strike beyond this single day.
Get informed with traffic information
for trains
On its website, the SNCF offers a page dedicated to traffic information, like most public transport services in urban areas (RATP, TCL, TBM, Tisséo, etc.).
The SNCF app is also very informative and more practical to use on the move. It will inform you live of the interruptions, whether related to social movements or accidents. At last, the SNCF Twitter account it also helps keep up with traffic.
For the Paris metro
The RATP provides real-time traffic information for the various metro, tram and RER lines in Paris. You can find it on your site, but also thanks to the dedicated application. Every day, the forecasts for the next day are published around 5 pm On Twitter, there are also accounts dedicated to each line to easily find the events of the day.
Find your way
If service on your usual metro, RER, TER, bus or tram route is interrupted, you will probably need to find alternative routes. The best way to do it is to use an app like Citymapper or Transit that offers precise and intelligent routes, indicating many alternatives to facilitate connections. They will be far more relevant than Google Maps, which doesn’t take strike-related outages into account.
Alternatives to public transport
If public transport services do not work, then it is necessary to resort to alternative means of transport. This is where the smartphone plays its best role and has enabled the creation of smart services to respond to this problem.
electric scooters
Lime, Dott and Tier services allow you to use their self-service electric scooters. Also keep in mind that these scooters could soon disappear in Paris.
self-service bikes
If scooters aren’t your cup of tea, you can also turn to self-service bikes. Several services also offer electric bikes. We think in particular of Vélib in the city of Paris, but many cities offer similar platforms with, sometimes, the accompanying application.
self service scooters
Also consider self-service electric scooter apps like Cityscoot.
share the car
The car sharing application par excellence is still BlaBlaCar, but there are alternatives like Klaxit, which specializes in commuting between home and work. You will be able to take advantage of the slightest trip in Ile de France for free, when the drivers will receive a guaranteed remuneration of at least 4 euros.
VTC services
Finally, obviously there are also VTC services like Uber and others. However, be warned, despite the higher carbon impact, the prices of these services can skyrocket when demand is very high. However, during a social movement, the demand is particularly strong. Ideally, therefore, it is better to resort to this option only if you are in a hurry.
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