Terminus, everyone get off! This Wednesday, May 1, fourteen commercial spaces closed their doors in the SNCF stations in Alpes-Maritimes and Var*. And, among the lot, we find Grasse… Reasons put forward by the South region, the organizing authority for mobility: “Take into account new customer purchasing practices and the high proportion of subscribers on this line.”
If the City of Perfumes will be able – unlike La Bocca or Mandelieu in particular, where there will only be distributors left to buy your transport ticket – count, two mornings a week, on a duo of SNCF agents, equipped with ‘a payment terminal**, this closure goes badly with Pane.
The Protection Animaux Nature et Environnement association, mobilized on several occasions in recent years against the closure of the bus station, has thus expressed its “emotion”.
Local service and social connection
In a letter addressed to the Region and its president, Renaud Muselier, Mahamadou Siribié evokes penalizing action for “many users” in terms “comfort, physical reception, sales, information, safety and life.”
Indeed, according to the president of Pane, the counters make “not only local public services, because they are closer to users, but they are also places to maintain social ties.”
Thus, digital dematerialization “at all costs” services, “in a context of digital divide”cannot replace “a human presence and listening.” It targets in particular “people who do not master the internet” penalized, particularly for making their subscription.
So many reasons for “refuse the closure of the ticket office at Grasse station”hoping to be “heard” by the Region. Which is, therefore, not the case for the moment…
*Grasse, Golfe-Juan, Biot, Villeneuve-Loubet, Cros-de-Cagnes, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Carnoles, Menton Garavan, Mandelieu, Cannes-la-Bocca, La Trinité, Sospel, Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël.
**Agents will be present Mondays and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
