This Wednesday, April 25 around 8:30 p.m., a truck that mistook the tram platform for a traffic lane caused significant damage on line 4 and paralyzed traffic on four lines. A complaint must be filed.
The images published by Laurent Nison, deputy mayor of Montpellier and president of the TAM, are impressive. We see a truck circulating in the city center on the tram platform. The elected official indicates that the 38-tonne heavyweight has “damaged the supply lines” of the tramway and announces “four lines at a standstill”. On Twitter, TAMVoyages confirmed around 8:30 p.m. the disruptions on lines 2 and 4.
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A truck on the tramway platform damages the supply lines.
4 tram lines at a standstill, material damage and thousands of passengers deprived of transport.@TaMVoyages will assert its rights with force and determination because they are those of all. pic.twitter.com/wvkSBo3TsZ– Laurent NISON (@LaurentNison) May 25, 2022
Questioned on the spot by the editorial staff of Midi Libre, TAM agents declared that after disturbances on lines 1 and 3, traffic has resumed. Line 2 is restored but does not pass until the station has repaired it, and line 4, where the truck got stuck, remains closed until the overhead contact line, which was heavily damaged, is repaired. damaged by the truck at the Sète bridge.
The truck will be evacuated by a repairman and technical checks carried out.
A complaint must be filed
Laurent Nison also showed his “support for the teams once again on the bridge to restore the network as soon as possible.” “It will take a few hours before line 4 can be restored, our teams will work on it tonight”, tells us the elected official who assures us that traffic will be perfectly normal this Thursday morning on the four lines.
“A complaint will be filed and we will seek compensation for the damage suffered, he continues, still on Twitter. This transport network is our common good. We are developing it, maintaining it, making it attractive, efficient and gradually free, so that its role is essential in this urgent need for ecological transition. So we don’t damage it!” He does not see it only in the present case as a fault of inattention of the driver of the machine “for having crossed the Comédie, touching a line and getting stuck like that under a bridge!”, Is indignant he.
The TAM systematically turns to the perpetrators of offenses on its network. “Either we file a complaint, or we send a damage invoice”, explains Laurent Nison. Invoices established according to the damage on the break in service calculated according to national scales.