Good news for public transportation riders! Because of the “encouraging health situation” as coronavirus is disappearing gradually, Minister for Ecological Transition Elisabeth Borne has announced that social distancing rules in transportation will be made softer starting June 2nd to enable “more flux at peak hours”.
A lower flux because social distancing – among others – and to which a solution is search for to make sure everyone can more around. “We went for a very demanding approach (…) Today, we can notice (…) the health situation is encouraging and, on the other hand, facemasks are massively worn” the minister explained in a press conference aired on Twitter. A good point that tends to make transportation come back to normal.
She goes on with a few explanations: “it will enable us (to allow) a grower flux at peak hours, to stop what we see today: several hundreds of meters of queue to get to some stations and railway stations”. She concludes: “We see balance must change and this is what we will do in texts released by June 2nd”.
Distancing constraints that also hindering the SNCF that only gets half its trains full, this is why making those rules softer will also apply to TGV trains and other trains “as long as it is possible” Elisabeth Borne says. The minister adds that “it is important to keep social distancing, but we must enable people to go on holidays via TGV”.
As for the SNCF, they are more cautious. The company said they were “waiting for precisions (…) in decrees the government will release by the weekend”. A decision that will yet enable commuters and future holiday-goers to plan and perhaps book their train tickets.
