RATP boss aims to have 70% of Paris transport network running by May 11 (updated)

Transport of India

24/04/2020 08:54

(Adds Junior Transport minister comments on BFM)
    PARIS, April 24 (Reuters) - French RATP boss Catherine
Guillouard said on Friday the transport authorities were working
towards having 70% of the Paris transport network operational by
May 11 up from 30% now, ready for when France exits its
lockdown.
    Making sure 70% of the transport network was running would
be equivalent to delivering about eight million trips a day, she
told France Inter radio. At full capacity, RATP delivers 12
million trips a day.
    Junior Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari in an 
interview with BFM TV also said that from May 11, 50% of French
high-speed TGV trains could be running nationwide, instead of 6%
now.
    Djebbari also said authorities had yet to decide whether it
would be compulsory for passengers to wear face masks when using
public transport once coronavirus confinement measures are
lifted in France.
    "It is very likely that in tight spaces with a dense
traffic, wearing face masks becomes compulsory...It is also very
likely that masks become compulsory onboard planes," he said.

 (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; editing by Edmund Blair and
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