Question 6697 — rail transport

Summary

Ms. Sira Sylla draws the attention of the Minister, to the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, responsible for transport, to the difficulties encountered by users of the SNCF Le Havre-Rouen-Paris line. Following the bad weather that the Seine-Maritime region has experienced recently, both because of the floods and the snow that followed, the SNCF has modified its transport plan to adapt it to the train operating conditions. However, while the wave of bad weather has dissipated, additional train cancellations and repeated delays are adding up, thus prolonging without explanation the malfunctions of the rail network. This line has been experiencing operating problems for several years, even before the problem of bad weather. Users are now at their wits' end. The trains which served the stations between Paris and Rouen being mostly eliminated, users find themselves obliged to take TER trains stopping at all stations while they had the possibility of taking direct trains to Rouen. In addition, the canceled trains leave little choice in time slots and users find themselves more than cramped in crowded trains. The controllers can no longer move around to carry out their work, the Passengers find themselves sitting on the ground or, as best they can, standing, thus compromising everyone's safety. Tensions between travelers are on the verge of coming to blows. These inconveniences will not get better since SNCF Normandie has announced a series of works leading to new modifications to the rail network. For example, as part of the renewal of switches at Paris-Saint-Lazare station from March 23 to 25 2018, SNCF teams will carry out device replacements, thus providing for an increase in transport time estimated at one hour. Another example, as part of the EOLE project (extension of the RER E), SNCF teams will carry out infrastructure development work near Poissy, from March 31 to April 3, 2018. During this period, rail traffic on the Le Havre-Rouen-Paris axes will use a alternative route, with an extension of travel time from 15 to 40 minutes. The SNCF reform announced by Prime Minister Édouard Philipe aims to respond to the concerns of SNCF users throughout France. This will involve adopting measures enabling “better quality of service for transport users and more efficient management of the company”, as the Prime Minister declared on February 26. 2018. This new railway pact seems better suited to the expectations of travelers, especially since they contribute 14 billion euros to the company each year from their taxes. Before the new railway pact announced by the Government on Wednesday March 14, 2018 can be put in place, she would like to express the urgency of reestablishing regular timetables on the SNCF line. Havre-Rouen-Paris. Requested by many users in her constituency and herself a passenger on this SNCF line, she was able to see all the inconveniences mentioned above. She would therefore like to know the measures that she can put in place, in order to put an end to a situation that the SNCF had announced as “exceptional” but which seems to be prolonged.

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