(ANSA) – PARIS, 01 JUN – After the chaotic night of the Champions League last Saturday, Paris also reserved nasty surprises for the spectators of last night’s match between Nadal and Djokovic at Roland-Garros. The game ended at 1 and 15 in the morning, so after the end of the subway and bus service. The consequence has been the massive use of taxis and Ubers, with the result of driving up prices and leaving many people on foot in the middle of the night.
The choice of starting at 9 pm – dictated by television rights agreements – is already highly contested by the public and by the players themselves. Many have relied on Twitter to send their messages into the night: “more than an hour after the game there is still a flood of people everywhere around the Roland-Garros stadium – one wrote – everyone is desperately trying to locate a taxi or an Uber. Madness “.
Another: “I just got back from Roland-Garros. Taxis asked 95 euros to cover 2 kilometers. We walked back!”. Particularly furious, as has been happening for a few days now, the English and Scottish journalists who covered the tennis event, and who remembered that in Wimbledon there are buses that take spectators back to the nearest metro stations, with the matches that end imperatively at 23.
Even the director of the tournament, Amélie Mauresmo, admitted that “it is now clear that we need to organize ourselves in another way. Perhaps with the Municipality to extend metro and bus runs. We will have to reflect, organize ourselves, but today we do not have the tools to organize nothing different “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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