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There is actually something called "service minimum" by law for public transport workers during strikes. Without it, there would not be any metro or RER at all during strikes in Paris.

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So let me, please, pay zero taxes, during the strikes. Or the minimum that doesn't go to those who are striking. It's a public service, like medicine... What if one has an appointment to an oncologist at 11AM, outside of "service minimum" hours. It's so irresponsible!

So you want to avoid 2c in taxes?? Ok. And there are still a variety of options to get somewhere. Including waking, cycling, scooter, hoping, etc...

Well, I want no taxation without representation, literally! Public transportation is financed from taxes. People who take jobs there must have some obligations, like I do to my employer. Why they should decide whether I should go to work or pay so much for taxi, if it's available at all? If those people working on public transport are not happy, I do understand them... But please announce everything in advance, not the Charlie Foxtrot situation that happened a year ago.

I don't know how it is in France, but where I live public transportation strikes are announced at least more than a week before they happen.

Last time, it was announced in advance, but for weeks if not months no one knew when it would end.

The pass navigo (transportation card) was actually refunded for the period of the massive strikes of December 2019...

https://www.iledefrance.fr/les-passes-navigo-du-mois-de-dece... (in French)

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