dutchflyer
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News from FRAnkfurt:
DB has asked for a juridical order to cancel the strike-as announced too late etc. (This is as such not uncommon here in DE)-we have to wait what the judges will decide.
Do not want to spoil too much, but about all posters in german here tell that even with more time to prepare DB cannot accurately put the real running trains online. The strike-if it goes on-is from 2.00 am for 24 hrs, in practice this will mean that both nights no nighttrain will run.
As an aside to the general topic: having that 49€/month DE-ticket last yr in summer period and now again for this month, not using it every day (even if just on 5-6 days/mo it makes a daily cost of less as 10€-an incredible bargain), and myself much more aiming for tram/metro/bus: expect to be 1 in 4 or 5 days to get hopelessly wrong-but one never knows what day that will be untill it has ended. Its a bargain price for a simply bad service. Strikes were also the last weeks on several days on local transport by Ver.Di=workers union, mostly for all the ´Stadtwerke´=urban works.
Also had planned to return home (NL) tomorrow on it=by regional trains, but came to FRA from Aachen-via Siegen, with just 2 RE-trains on sun 10/3 and that went perfect.
A big major centre of delays etc is the Rhein/Ruhr area (say between Köln and Dortmund)_and most often via freight trains that cannot stop at any point.
But here in FRA the local S-bahn today was also nearly halved ´due to many staff reported sick´.
DB has asked for a juridical order to cancel the strike-as announced too late etc. (This is as such not uncommon here in DE)-we have to wait what the judges will decide.
Do not want to spoil too much, but about all posters in german here tell that even with more time to prepare DB cannot accurately put the real running trains online. The strike-if it goes on-is from 2.00 am for 24 hrs, in practice this will mean that both nights no nighttrain will run.
As an aside to the general topic: having that 49€/month DE-ticket last yr in summer period and now again for this month, not using it every day (even if just on 5-6 days/mo it makes a daily cost of less as 10€-an incredible bargain), and myself much more aiming for tram/metro/bus: expect to be 1 in 4 or 5 days to get hopelessly wrong-but one never knows what day that will be untill it has ended. Its a bargain price for a simply bad service. Strikes were also the last weeks on several days on local transport by Ver.Di=workers union, mostly for all the ´Stadtwerke´=urban works.
Also had planned to return home (NL) tomorrow on it=by regional trains, but came to FRA from Aachen-via Siegen, with just 2 RE-trains on sun 10/3 and that went perfect.
A big major centre of delays etc is the Rhein/Ruhr area (say between Köln and Dortmund)_and most often via freight trains that cannot stop at any point.
But here in FRA the local S-bahn today was also nearly halved ´due to many staff reported sick´.