ONCF commuters exercise patience

One winter morning, at the Rabat Agdal station. Naima gets out of the car after kissing her children and husband. She quickens her pace and heads towards the station. The day is grey and rainy. On the platform, dozens of travellers are waiting. Some scan the horizon in feverish anticipation, others pace back and forth, the operator having already announced a twenty-five-minute delay. Their number grows as the other schedules have been shifted. This seems to annoy our young woman to the highest degree, and yet she has been used to it for two years. Suddenly, her face lights up at the sight of an acquaintance and she heads towards her: "The day is starting well, another delay," she says to her by way of greeting. "The meeting I have today is of the utmost importance." Without a doubt, since she is a manager in a multinational. "Every day that God makes, I start the day with a knot in my s…