She wants to move the lines. Exasperated, like thousands of his fellows, to suffer every day the “ derailments of the Nancy-Metz-Luxembourg line, a cross-border worker launched on Wednesday February 8 an online petition on the Change.org website in order to initiate a massive mobilization and provoke a reaction from the public authorities. She has already collected 3 500 signatures and target 5 000.
« For two years we have been accumulating delays, cancellations, problems of insufficient trains… The situation continues to deteriorate. For the past few months, it’s been hell. We have people who can’t even get on the trains anymore because they’re overcrowded. I don’t even dare to imagine what would happen if by misfortune an accident occurred. It would be carnage… “, Plague Antonietta Salaris, the author of this petition.
Herself an employee in Luxembourg, Antonietta Salaris has opened Pandora’s box. The signatories of his petition let loose on the citizen platform. The incriminations fuse, in particular against the SNCF, manager of the TER. A resident of Illange, for example, comments : « I’ve had enough of opaque communication and the irresponsibility of the SNCF, which takes no account of the real suffering it inflicts on border users. SNCF user workers must be reimbursed beyond May 2023 for these years of catastrophic service ! »
“Permanent stress and increased fatigue”
After a short respite during the Covid crisis , cross-border commuters once again found themselves faced with the erratic functioning of rail services. Back from teleworking, their hassle has resumed even more: trains at a standstill, overcrowded trains, cascading cancellations… Going to work in Luxembourg has become a purge for many commuters. In the introduction to her petition, the daily user of the Metz-Luxembourg line is annoyed: “Users travel in increasingly painful and indecent conditions, which generates permanent stress and increased fatigue. »
She does not stop there and observes, like many, that nothing seems to have been done to improve the situation. “On the contrary, writes the young woman, the problems are growing and the conditions are deteriorating over time. People have even left their jobs, exhausted by these inadmissible journeys and transport conditions. And to conclude, hoping that his initiative will snowball and reach the ears of regional decision-makers: “It is high time things changed! »
