The strike currently happening in Paris’s metro is slowly stopping, as more and more trains are running… still, it remains really hard to manage to get onboard, and to stay onboard when people trying to get in try to get you out of their way (of course it doesn’t work with me).
Right now it is 7h12 in the morning, metro 1, direction La Defense, at Charles de Gaulle – Etoile.
For about 5 minutes, people tried to get in, pushing even the people who tried to get out, thinking only about the 4 or 5 previous trains they missed because they were too many people getting in…
Right now in Paris, metro has switched from a normal transportation method to a warfield. Here if you collapse, you’ll just be left where you were at this moment and nobody will care for you, this is truly a FFA (Free For All, term used in games, particulary in FPS, meaning that there are no teams).
Basically everyone want to get in, everyone want to get out, at the same time…
For the story, I left from Lourmel, metro 8… arrived at the station at 6 o’clock, and took the first coming train, at 6:50.
Lucky me you’ll think, to be able to get a metro on line 1 just after leaving line 8, … but that’s not luck, that’s planning. Usually I’d take RER A, however today the line A is said to have only a very few trains running… that means that every train going up to La Defense would be so full it’d be impossible to get in… as many people try to go to La Defense.
So basically the idea is to get to La Defense by metro, and switch there to line A, as it should be possible to get onboard.
Anyway if you want to get an idea of how low normal people you see everyday can get, I highly suggest getting in a metro when there have been strikes for a few days (7 in my case). Remember that this may be dangerous, so don’t try it if you’re not ready to get hit in the head…
#1 by Daëril on 2007/11/20 - 09:12
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Still I think It’d be fun on days you don’t work to just sit at a station and laugh at people, Nelson style. That might get you roughed up a bit, though.