The phenomenon started this summer. Due to the lack of drivers, SNCF has canceled 47 TERs per day in the Auvergne region (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) until August 15. Still lacking drivers, Transilien users in the Paris suburbs are being fined for this start of the school year. Thus, until the end of September, 19 trains are removed from 600 daily on the C line of the RER. On line D, 28 trains disappeared in the first half of September, according to Sud-Rail.
“Today we are short about fifty drivers at Transilien and less than a hundred at TER.”, recognizes Catherine Woronoff-Argaud, head of recruitment policy for the SNCF group. To explain this “hole”, the existing railway operator refers to the context. “During the epidemic, we continued to hire. But not at the same pace because of arrests and traffic restrictionsexplains Catherine Woronoff-Argaud. As a result, we hired 550 drivers in 2020 and then in 2021…
Source: Le Figaro
