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It's official, it will soon be forbidden to use your phone in the subway 🚫📱

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Hey there, everyone! Exciting news alert! Valérie Pécresse, the president of Île-de-France Mobilité (the cool people who run the RATP network), just shared some news that might make some of you a little nervous. Drumroll, please... Starting next school year, you won't be able to use your phone in the metro. Yep, you heard correctly. But fear not, we've got all the juicy details right here for you.

Who hasn't been bothered by that loud neighbor on the train, talking loudly on the phone and sharing every little detail about their child's not-so-impressive accomplishments? Or annoyed by that person who lacked consideration and made the entire train car listen to their music? Well, it looks like these minor annoyances will be a thing of the past as of September 2024.


Stay calm, please

Behind this slightly extreme announcement, we admit, there are various arguments, more or less acceptable. And firstly, the desire to make Paris metro a place of calm, of meditation, dare I say, so that noise nuisances become a distant memory.

It will therefore be forbidden to answer a call, but also to listen to music, with or without headphones. And even to answer a message! Thanks to this measure, RATP hopes to strengthen the connections between passengers, and thus promote more joyful journeys. And it makes sense, considering that it is not necessarily easy to start a conversation with someone who is glued to their screen.

However, we can already see the comments getting heated about this decision, and we can understand that. For many, public transportation represents a big part of the day (sometimes several hours), and staring into each other's eyes, without even being able to listen to music, is tough...

But hey, it can also be a moment to enjoy the singers (often talented) that you can come across in the subway cars or between platforms. And we also hope that with such a measure, they will coach the drivers so that they amp up the atmosphere during the rides.


Avoiding excesses

But more than the auditory inconveniences, what Ile-de-France Mobilité really hopes to reduce are all the excesses and mishaps caused by an uncontrolled use of the phone in the metro. For example, this includes thefts, because it's harder for someone to snatch the latest iPhone if it's safely tucked away in their pocket or bag.

To keep within the sametheme, the company also refers to the numerous controversies that have taken place recently around issues of harassment. Cases related to Instagram and TikTok accounts that filmed pickpockets in action, in order to display them on social media , thereby triggering waves of hate (deserved or not).

undeserved).

not, we'll let you decide).

Finally, since it is already simply forbidden to take photos or film in the stations and trains without permission (yes, that's a surprise huh!), everyone agrees that this strict ban will simplify controls, and complications related, for example, to the right to one's image!

P.-S.: Before we finish, did you remember to double-check the date today? Always maintain a touch of doubt... because as the saying goes, April 1st is usually linked to pranks, and here at Bonbon, we enjoy a good joke. But don't be too let down, our pranks have actually become reality before... You never know.