@cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social
Post #3780741
2026-07-13 06:01 UTC
Gare de Lyon yesterday evening at 6pm: when you design the waiting spaces so poorly it quickly crumbles at every disruption. Main hall completely overcrowded, it can take 5 minutes to cross it. People sitting on every possible staircase, along every wall in all levels of the station, or seeking fresh air in the privatized shops.
Ultimately it's not SNCF's fault that fire damaged the high-speed line, but the poor space design is SNCF Gare & Connections' fault.
#canicule #SNCF #SNCFail
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@cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social 2026-07-13 06:07
Poor delay prediction is also at fault. My 18:22 train to Basel was only announced delayed about 30 minutes before departure. At that point they planned 1h40 of delay. Then at 19:45 they cancelled the train, as it would arrive too late in Switzerland where night repair works happen. However, this was all predictable from 17:00 at the latest. The incoming train was delayed so they knew it couldn't return on time. And they knew about the works in Switzerland. The outcome was already predictable.
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@julienw@pouet.chapril.org 2026-07-13 18:32
@cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social one issue is also that hall 3 is poorly accessible from hall 1... There's much more space there