RATP TRAFFIC. The circulation of buses and trams will resume normally this Wednesday, July 5, 2023 after several evenings at a standstill due to the damage caused to public transport during the riots which followed the death of Nahel.
[Updated July 5, 2023 4:00 PM] Good news! Ile-de-France bus and tram traffic normally resumes this Wednesday evening, July 5. “The service of the Bus, Noctilien and Tramway network will be provided normally from this evening. Some routes could be modified. Consult our information channels regularly fed in real time to find out the details of your lines”, writes the RATP on its site.
Buses and trams in Île-de-France had until then been stopped every evening since Thursday June 29, while the day before, 6 buses and a tram had been set on fire in various towns in the Paris suburbs, in the part of the riots that have hit France since the death of Nahel, which occurred on Tuesday June 27 in Nanterre. Only line 5 of the tramway is still at a standstill today.
The RATP announces a total resumption of traffic on Ile-de-France tram and bus lines this Wednesday evening. However, traffic is still interrupted on the entire line 5 of the tram “due to damage to [its] infrastructure” which occurred in the context of the riots, indicates the RATP. Substitution buses have been put in place, the resumption of traffic not being scheduled for today but the end of the weekend.
Several tools are available on the Web to find out about upcoming traffic disruptions at RATP. To know the traffic status of the metro, RER, bus, tram in real time, with the stations possibly closed today, consult the RATP traffic info. For the RER, you can also follow the Twitter accounts @RERA, @RERB, @RERC, @RERD or @RERE. To follow train traffic in real time, visit the Transilien website.
