French rail service and public transportation in the greater Paris area will be disrupted at least until Monday as rank- and-file union members voted Friday to continue through the weekend their strike against a government pension reform, French media reported, according to dpa. The RATP public transit system serving the capital and its suburbs said that metro traffic in Paris and rail traffic between the city and its suburbs is expected to remain severely disrupted at the weekend, with about one of five scheduled metro trains running. The national railway network SNCF said that about one of three scheduled high-speed TGV trains were operating on Friday, an improvement over the first two days of the strike, with regional train traffic also limited. About one of three or four scheduled metro trains were in service in Paris on riday, the RATP said, while rail traffic between the capital and its suburbs was badly disrupted.
