Friday 18 March 2016

Rail passengers "on strike"

Passengers on the 7.06 Auch/Toulouse express were annoyed when their journey to work was extended by about 15 minutes when the train terminus was changed. Until December the train stopped at Matabiau, the main terminus, but now ends at Les Arenes, about 15 minutes earlier. Passengers must finish their journey by bus or metro and some have decided that extra time and expense is unfair. So they have stopped buying tickets in protest and sending the resultant fines to the Conseil Regional, the body responsible for deciding policy (though not for actually running the trains). SNCF say the problem is too many trains at Matabiau, but the change is temporary.
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