Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The largest <br/> strike of railway history



Frankfurt / Main - Massive blockade on Germany's rails: most are from the strike in the history of Deutsche Bahn seitDonnerstagmorgen another multi-million commuters and first auchFernreisende affected.
After the freight strike dieLokführergewerkschaft GDL for 2 clock sowieden also the long-distance passenger transport.
Especially in East Germany there massiveBehinderungen in regional, amDonnerstagmorgen said a railway spokesman. There, only ten percent of trains were on their way.
ImWesten is the situation for commuters and rail travelers information zufolgeetwas better go where about 50 percent of regional trains.
In approximately two thirds of the long-distance trains were on their way. Damitsei the replacement schedule, which wants the Rail to provide a thinned Betriebaufrechterhalten, as planned, under way, said derBahnsprecher.
However: On the highways in the morning there was chaos. Rund um Köln 40 kilometers were reported jammed.
The strike in the mainline and mass transit will last until 48 hours long zumSamstag by 2 clock. Since Wednesday afternoon, according to railway Güterverkehrniedergelegt have already drivers work in 1000, the strike there will also end on Saturday morning.
The replacement schedule of the train can be found HERE as a pdf, for information by phone is connected around the clock free hotline on 08000 99 66 33rd
 HERE are more about different departure times. However, the site of the train is overloaded.