Bus and train users have to be prepared for restrictions on Friday. The Verdi union has announced warning strikes in local transport. But not everything stands still.
Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Numerous bus and train lines will be canceled in Hesse's cities this Friday due to the warning strikes announced in local public transport. In Frankfurt, all subways and trams are expected to stand still for 24 hours without replacement, as the local transport company traffiQ and the Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main (VGF) announced on Wednesday. Accordingly, the striking of the subway in particular will "affect painfully" many passengers. The S-Bahn, regional trains and bus lines of the Frankfurt local transport network should offer alternatives. They were on the road as scheduled on Friday.
In the city of Kassel, too, neither trams nor buses of the Kasseler Verkehrsgesellschaft (KGV) should be running during the strike on Friday. The KGV announced that this also applies to the bus lines and tram routes that operate in the surrounding area. Commuters must therefore also reckon with the fact that regional trams from outside only run to the main station, trips through the city center are no longer necessary. The passengers in the city area could switch to the regional train and bus lines.
The city bus service in Wiesbaden is also expected to be paralyzed, as the ESWE transport company announced. This also included school transport on Friday, night buses from Friday to Saturday and the community lines between neighboring Mainz and the capital of Hesse.
Without strike-related restrictions, however, the lines of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Oberhessen (VGO) in the Gießen, Wetteraukreis and Vogelsberg districts are allowed to operate, as a spokesman explained. Bus transport in the Fulda district should also be spared from the warning strike on Friday, as the Fulda local transport company (LNG) explained at the request of the German Press Agency. The local transport organization DADINA announced that bus and rail transport in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district and the city of Darmstadt was also not affected. The reason for this are other collective agreements of the employees in these areas.
According to the Verdi union, the warning strike should start on Friday with the start of the timetable and last until the end of the timetable. In the negotiations for the approximately 2.5 million federal and local employees, Verdi and the civil servants' association dbb are demanding 10.5 percent more income, but at least 500 euros more per month.
