A new ferry route, more US flights and six other France travel updates

Strike impacting prepare journey in southern France this weekend 

TER Occitanie rail employees in southern France have begun strike motion in the present day (August 5), affecting routes together with: Toulouse-Narbonne, Carcassonne-Limoux, Perpignan-Villefranche and Nîmes-Alès-Clermont. 

The strike motion will proceed tomorrow (August 6). It was referred to as by CGT Cheminots, in protest in opposition to employees shortages and an growing precarity amongst current employees.

In case you are planning to journey on one of many above routes in the present day or tomorrow, you possibly can name 0800 31 31 31 without spending a dime to ask whether or not your prepare is operating. 

Air France to deliver again Paris-Newark flights after 11 years 

Air France has introduced that its Charles de Gaulle-Newark (New Jersey) flights will likely be returning after they had been suspended in March 2012.

The route was later taken up by Delta Air Traces in June 2013, operating till October 2018.

The Air France flights will start on December 12. 

Which means that between them Air France and Delta can have 10 each day flights between Paris and the larger New York space over the winter. 

Delta has additionally resumed flights from Paris to Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina and Cincinnati in Ohio, after a Covid-related suspension lasting over two years. 

The airline is providing 4 weekly flights to Raleigh-Durham and three weekly flights to Cincinnati. 

DFDS Ferries to start Rosslare-Dunkirk route 

DFDS Ferries has introduced a brand new passenger service from Rosslare in south-east Eire to Dunkirk (Nord) which launches in the present day (August 5).

The route is being launched on a trial foundation at first, with passenger site visitors being added to the freight companies already operating between the 2 ports. 

Chris Parker, route director at DFDS, mentioned: “We launched a freight service between Rosslare and Dunkirk in January 2021, and it has proved extraordinarily fashionable with prospects trying to transfer items between Eire and continental Europe with out the necessity to use the land-bridge through the UK. 

“Including passenger companies to the route will additional strengthen the service and we anticipate robust demand from holidaymakers in Eire and in Northern Europe. 

“Rosslare is on the coronary heart of the ‘sunny southeast’ and a brief drive from Dublin and Cork, making it a very talked-about vacation spot. Irish prospects will profit from a direct hyperlink into the guts of Europe.”

Crossings take 23 hours and 45 minutes, with as much as 5 sailings per week.  

The French motorway with 5 pace cameras over 9 kilometres

The A507 motorway, which crosses from the north to the south of Marseille to hyperlink up the A7 and the A50, has simply been geared up with three new pace cameras, bringing the entire quantity to 5 over a nine-kilometre stretch. 

The primary of the brand new cameras is located on the finish of the Merlan tunnel heading for the A7, the second is simply earlier than the Montolivert tunnel heading for the A50 and the third is between the La Fourragère and Saint-Barnabé tunnels. 

This final digital camera has been positioned within the central reservation, which permits it to catch rushing automobiles travelling in each instructions. 

Just one or two of the pace cameras are activated every day with the others merely there to discourage drivers from rushing.

Uber launches new Eurostar ticket reserving service 

Eurostar passengers can now use the Uber app to ebook tickets between London and Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. 

This new service kinds a part of Uber’s plans to grow to be a ‘tremendous app’ enabling prospects to view all of their journey plans in a single place. 

Uber’s regional normal supervisor for the UK, Northern and Jap Europe, James Heywood, mentioned: “You have got been in a position to ebook rides, bikes, boat companies and scooters on the Uber app for quite a few years, so including trains and coaches is a pure development.”

Ultimately, lodge bookings might additionally grow to be out there on the app.

Passengers can as soon as once more purchase single tickets on Ile-de-France buses

Ile-de-France’s transport operator RATP has resumed the sale of single tickets on board buses, which was suspended at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

Which means that vacationers and occasional travellers can as soon as once more pay for his or her journey with no need a journey move. 

RATP has mentioned that the suspension of bodily ticket gross sales resulted in a lack of €5million for Ile-de-France Mobilités.

Some drivers have criticised the transfer again to single tickets, stating that this takes up helpful time. 

In addition to bodily tickets, passengers may go for digital tickets, which could be purchased by sending a textual content message studying ‘Bus’ and the road quantity to 93100. You’ll then be despatched a textual content which acts as your ticket, and a cost of €2 will likely be added to your telephone contract. 

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