A bus was filmed reversing on the ring road in Paris. The driver has since been fired.
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Umaneuver that could have turned into a tragedy. An RATP bus driver on line 125 in Paris drove on Wednesday, December 21, in the opposite direction on the ring road at Porte de Gentilly, according to information from the Parisian. The bus, full of passengers, which circulates between the Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort and the Porte d’Orléans, was filmed by a motorist making a U-turn in the middle of traffic.
The author of the video expressed his amazement: “He took the ring road in the opposite direction! With the world in there… They all almost died. Faced with the driver’s maneuver, the vehicles temporarily stopped to let the bus go back in the right direction of traffic. There were no injuries.
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The driver laid off
“This maneuver is totally prohibited and inexcusable,” reacted the RATP, which confirmed the incident to the newspaper. “The driver was quickly identified and terminated. He will be received by his management in the coming days as part of a disciplinary interview, ”added the Ile-de-France transport group chaired by the former Prime Minister, Jean Castex. A union contacted by the daily denounced the lack of driver training. “This incident is the result of a cruel lack of training which has been reduced to a bare minimum to meet the company’s unrealistic productivity objectives”, lamented Grégory Thomas, of the Sud transport federation.
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This incident comes as the crisis simmers among Parisian bus drivers: absenteeism, recruitment difficulties and the multiplication of localized social conflicts highlight the malaise of the machinists. The objective for the RATP is to prepare for the opening to competition, scheduled for 1er January 2025 on the surface network. This prospect and the uncertainties that go with it confuse the machinists whose working conditions are gradually being modified to increase their productivity in the face of competitors.