Ruhr area.
After the strike was called off, rail traffic resumed almost normally on Monday. There were some painful failures in regional traffic.
Monday morning and the train station is almost empty. From afar you can hear the excited chatter of a fifth grader who wants to go from Bochum to the Zoom in Gelsenkirchen. To be on the safe side, the teachers decided in advance to take the subway and tram there – now the train also runs, but the happiness of the children doesn’t matter at all.
After the canceled warning strike, train traffic in North Rhine-Westphalia resumed almost normally on Monday, with far fewer disruptions than feared. In regional traffic, however, there were hour-long failures of the S-Bahn 1 (through the Ruhr area), the S11 (Bergisch-Gladbach-Düsseldorf) and the RE( (Mönchengladbach-Koblenz).
Many train drivers have now reorganized several times
Nevertheless, the stations are significantly emptier in the first few hours. In view of the impending strike, many commuters organized themselves days ago, switched to working from home or got into the car with colleagues. And the people you meet have, so to speak, reorganized themselves in view of the cancellation of the warning strike.
Jürgen Umbach, for example, is standing there with a large suitcase and is going to Trier on Monday as planned. Four and a half hours, “if everything works out”, Deutschlandticket. Because of the strike announcement, he had planned to drive on Sunday, but that would have taken six hours.
“Where there are still restrictions, replacement buses will run”
And a secretary from Essen had asked the VRR and the Ruhrbahn in the last few days how she could get to Dortmund Airport by bus and train. Complicated, but works. “I could have asked my kids to bring me, but I didn’t want to burden anyone,” she says. Now the train will take her to Dortmund. Off on vacation!
“Where there are still restrictions, there are replacement buses,” said a railway spokeswoman in the morning. Long-distance traffic is 90 percent. After the strike was called off, around 50,000 train journeys nationwide, including shift and deployment plans, were rescheduled. From Tuesday, all trains should be back to normal.
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