The train drivers of the Deutsche Bahn strike. 95 percent of the members of the GDL union voted in a strike vote in favor of the labor dispute.
Commuters who drive with competing companies could also be affected. Since the union has recently felt responsible not only for train staff but for employees in all areas of the group, it could also strike signal boxes and thereby hit traffic considerably. This applies to long-distance trains, but also to S-Bahn trains. In regional transport, there are often private providers whose train drivers do not go on strike.
That is how long the strike is supposed to last
Information from the regional transport associations
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What does the GDL want to achieve with the strike?
48 hours Train drivers strike at Deutsche Bahn
The train drivers’ union GDL is calling on its members to strike at Deutsche Bahn this Tuesday. It is supposed to start in the freight traffic in the evening at 7 p.m. A nationwide 48-hour strike in passenger traffic and in the rail infrastructure will follow from Wednesday, 2 a.m. to Friday, 2 a.m., said GDL boss Claus Weselsky.
Because of the train drivers’ strike, only about every fourth planned long-distance train is to run on Deutsche Bahn on Wednesday and Thursday. The ICEs will only roll on the most important routes every two hours.
According to Deutsche Bahn, the particularly heavily used connections such as between Berlin and the Rhine-Ruhr area, between Hamburg and Frankfurt as well as the connections to important train stations and airports have priority. The goal is a two-hour offer with particularly long trains on the main axes. The railway lists the trains affected in detail here on. In addition, the company recommends that train journeys be postponed if possible or before the journey begins Travel information to use.
Even commuter have to adapt to disabilities
In the case of regional transport, the likewise very limited offer will fluctuate very strongly regionally, the company announced. In the Palatinate, for example, according to the railway, the offer is not being thinned out as much because there are only a few train drivers here. Deutsche Bahn hopes that despite the strike in the Palatinate, 60 percent of regional trains and S-Bahn trains will run.
In contrast, the railway and the special purpose association for local rail passenger transport in the south are assuming that there will be considerable problems on all regional and S-Bahn lines in the DB Regio area. According to the railway, there should be a replacement service. However, it is unclear whether he will take action, since the signal boxes are also to be striked.
Here you can find information about the regional transport associations: