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London Buses Run By The RATP
On Mar 9, 12:27*pm, wrote:
In article , (Arthur Figgis) wrote: *From:* Arthur Figgis *Date:* Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:15 +0000 On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote: Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London Underground. France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand up to reality. Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure) and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).. -- Arthur Figgis * * * * * * * * Surrey, UK Out of curiosity, I often check the RATP equivalent of the Live Update page:http://www.ratp.fr/informer/trafic/trafic.php Like LU, they seem to have spells when there's problems, although LU seem to have had a lot more recently with the Jubilee line signal system failures. As with the Underground, they had their spell of "accident grave de voyageur"s after the new year Loosely translated causes for delays a incident technique Technical problems accident grave de voyageur Person under a train le trafic est interrompu entre ..... There is no service between .... Les trains circulent avec des retards de XXXX minutes environ et des suppressions ou modifications... Trains are running about XXXX minutes late, with cancellations or changes to destinations Ces incidents sont pr sent termin s mais les trains circulent avec des retards de XXXX minutes environ. These incidents have ended, but the trains are running about XXXX minutes late Les trains circulent avec des retards importants The trains are running with large delays Incident termin XXXX Incident at XXXX has ended Fin d'incident, reprise du trafic End of incident, trains now running Retour au trafic normal estim vers XXXX Return to normal running estimated at XXXX En cons quence, les trains ne desservent pas les gares XXXX As a consequence, the trains are not going to / stopping at stations XXXX Le trafic est normal sur les autres lignes de XXXX Other lines on the XXX are running normally En r percussion du d clenchement d'un signal d'alarme en gare XXXX Because an alarm has been operated at XXXX station Un train en panne */ *En r percussion une panne de mat riel Faulty train incident de signalisation */ *panne de signalisation Signal problems En r percussion de divers incidents Because of various incidents En raison d'un incident voyageur Because of a passenger incident / accident En raison de la chute d'un voyageur entre deux voitures XXXX Because of a passenger falling between two cars at XXXX En raison d'un colis suspect XXXX Because of a suspect package at XXXX En raison d'un rail cass XXXX Because of a broken rail at XXXX En raison de la pr sence de voyageurs sur les voies XXXX Because of people on the track at XXXX En r percussion des conditions climatiques Because of weather conditions En r percussion des conditions climatiques d grad es Because of worsening weather conditions En raison des chutes de neige, l'ensemble du r seau bus est paralys Because of snow, there are no buses running Le Funiculaire est interrompu The funinulaire (to Sacre Coeur) isn't running and yesterday's delay on line 9 speaks for itself! Animal sur la voie Roger- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Of course, if you live in Paris (or anywhere else in France for that matter) you will come to understand what "..Suite a un preavis de greve..." means. |
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