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2005-10-05 Europe

French national strike causes travel chaos

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Posted by Steve White 2005-10-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Is this the kind of "revolution" that Chirac wants to take effect in Turkey?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-10-05 00:29|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-10-05 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Lol, jackal! But a strike is so cosmopolite et sophistiquÃ©, no? Who wants an Ã©conomie fortifiÃ©e? That's soooo AmÃ©ricain.

Posted by .com 2005-10-05 01:11|| 2005-10-05 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 The article is pure unadulterated BS. Parisian public transportation is in the hands of two companies: long range and low frequency lines are in the hands of SNCF (who also ensures national-wide railways) transportation and these had a strike rate while intra-muros transportation and high frequency lines (ie one train every two minutes in the rush hours) are in the hands of RATP and these were nearly unaffected. In fact RATP trains were less crowded than usual. Busses are in the hands of RATP and were also unaffected except for trafic conditions who were worse than in a normal day.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-10-05 04:14|| 2005-10-05 04:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Ooops post should have read "long range, low frequency lines are in the hands of SNCF and those had a high strike rate while intra-muros and high-frequcny, shorter range regional lines are in hands of RATP and those had a low strike rate.

I suspect that the AFP reporter is a leftist aiming to gibve the impresion that the strike was an unmitigated success

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-10-05 04:28|| 2005-10-05 04:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect that the AFP reporter is a leftist

That any reporter is a leftist is a pretty safe assumption.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-05 08:09|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-05 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 "That's the way to help your country get out of a sluggish economy - increase public debt while making it impossible for people with real jobs to do anything." - Vodkapundit

Hehe, alltime classic quote.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-10-05 09:13|| 2005-10-05 09:13|| Front Page Top

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