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The TGV Atlantique has transported 40 million people in one year since the opening of the high speed lines Tours-Bordeaux and Le Mans-Rennes on 2 July 2017, a 20% increase in traffic (excluding the effect of the strike of railwaymen), indicated the SNCF Sunday.
"It is not every day that one makes 20% of traffic moreover, one is very happy! That's another 8 million people, half of whom are new customers who did not take the train, "said Rachel Picard, Executive Director of Voyages SNCF.
" We are in the objectives we have was given "
In the extension of the existing high-speed line (HSL), the sections South Europe Atlantic (SEA, between Tours and Bordeaux) and Brittany-Pays de la Loire (BPL, between Le Mans and Rennes) notably put Bordeaux at 2 hours 04 from Paris instead of 3 hours 14 and Rennes at 1 hour 25 from the capital instead of 2 hours 05.
From Ile-de-France, the TGV transported in one 5.5 million people to Bordeaux and 4 million to Rennes. The increase in traffic over nine months (excluding the second quarter of 2018, affected by strikes), reached respectively 70% and 27%.
"We are in the objectives we had set, which were very ambitious, "Picard said. "There is a very strong dynamic for the entire Atlantic". And the trend should resume, after the stoppage due to the movement of railway workers in the spring: "The rise of power lines at high speed, it is over three or four years," she explained. [19659003] A million travelers between the Ile-de-France and Toulouse
The manager notes some "good surprises", starting with a 60% growth between the Ile-de-France and Toulouse (now accessible in 4 22 hours from Paris), with 1 million pbadengers transported over a year
"Young people came mbadively, with almost + 50% across the Atlantic," she also said. Another reason for satisfaction, the number of professional travelers has "almost doubled" between Paris and Bordeaux, a relationship on which the new offer inYes – more upscale boosted customer satisfaction, according to Mrs. Picard.
The SNCF intends to generalize "Yes to Paris-Bordeaux, and extend this service in the fall to other destinations such as Lyon, Strasbourg and Lille," she said. "Satisfaction inYou is clearly superior to customer satisfaction on conventional TGVs," said the SNCF Voyages boss.
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