French commuters face the bleak prospect of limited train services
France has suffered travel chaos after transport and energy workers broadened a strike in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform.
Rail services were severely disrupted and energy production reduced in the open-ended action over cuts affecting some 500,000 public sector workers.
Thousands of commuters were forced to improvise their journey to work.
The government and the unions have resumed talks but unions have voted to extend the strike to Thursday.
There are fears the stoppage, which began on Tuesday evening, could last for several days.
The BBC's Alasdair Sandford in Paris says that with students, teachers, civil servants and even magistrates also threatening strike action in the coming weeks, the fear for the government is that this becomes a general wave of protest against economic hardship.
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