Overview
- The Change.org petition calling for a pilot of women‑and‑children‑only carriages on RER and Transilien lines reached about 20,500 signatures on Tuesday, November 4.
- Petitioners propose clearly marked cars, reinforced monitoring and an independent evaluation involving passengers after a trial period.
- IDFM says it has no plan to create reserved cars and prioritizes more cameras, interlinked “boas” trains to reduce isolation, the 3117 emergency line and call points.
- Regional leaders, including Valérie Pécresse, are pushing AI‑assisted video analytics, while Frédéric Péchenard argued segregated cars are a “good question, but a bad answer.”
- Women’s safety on transport is on the agenda at the Rencontres nationales des Transports publics in Orléans, as official data show 7 in 10 women report sexist or sexual violence and 56% do not feel safe on the network.