New petition pushing for emergency fixes to the Metz-Thionville-Luxembourg line. Thousands of our coworkers deal with overcrowded, delayed trains daily.
5,500 signatures needed. Deadline: 15 July.
Petition #4103 – L90 rail crisis affecting our cross-border colleagues
byu/JosLetz inLuxembourg
Posted by JosLetz
7 Comments
What about moving to Luxembourg ( North mainly ) ? Low prices full of nature and less traffic
But is the problem really Luxembourg or actually SNCF?
I guess the person who made that petition is not aware of the new Luxembourg-Bettembourg line opening sometime in 2027 which will be exclusively used for the trains coming from France? That new line should improve things drastically since the bottleneck in Bettembourg is basically gone since trains from Esch and France won’t have to share the same tracks anymore.
I mean its not like Cfl is already investing in a completely new line only for the border crossing between Luxembourg and Thionville.
This kind of works take alot of time.
That being said, most train suppressions come from the SNCF itself and Luxembourg/Cfl has NO influence whatsoever.
It sucks that for the major constructions the cross boarder workers will need to rely heavily on busses during thoses times but your petition isn’t going to change anything!
Here is a [Cfl Bettembourg-Thionville](https://groupe.cfl.lu/fr-fr/project/detail/upcoming-projects/gare-bettembourg-les-suites) construction plans and you still have more like the new line that will go directly from Luxembourg to Bettembourg then Thionville etc.
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>…. un engagement financier renforcé du Luxembourg dans le développement du sillon lorrain et une accélération des investissements à court terme.
Besides the construction of a new line going directly from France to LuxCity and operating it on our side what do they want more?
We’re also upgrading A3 on our side, don’t know about A31 though.
What i mean is, when all those constructions are finished, people from Metz will have better connection to the City than quite a bunch of residents.
I’ve been taking this hellish route for over eight years. It’s about a four-hour journey from door to door from Metz (two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, including all transport).
My sympathies to my former fellow sufferers. It’s a huge mental strain to catch the train at 6 am (meaning getting up at 5 am or even earlier) and to find that it’s already chaos on the platform because trains are cancelled for one reason or another.
The worst is when it happens on a freezing winter’s day with the darkness, the cold, the crowds and the exhaustion.
And often it happens on several journeys in a row. So it’s the same again in the evening with the platforms completely packed in Luxembourg City and that overwhelming sense of depression it brings.
This line is a daily humiliation, a sort of real-life test of our ability to accept and submit, and I’ve thought many times about quitting because of it.
In the end, I persuaded my wife to move there and break the piggy bank. And so much for the nice house, given the prices.
But I really couldn’t stand these journeys and these problems any longer.
There were more of them tonight, obviously during rush hour as always. A living hell.