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Saturday 08 November 2014
What to do if the train does not run? Hundreds of passengers are likely to have transferred in the past few days on the bus, rental car, flight or carpool. But not all benefit equally alternatives.
A cluster of people jostling at the narrow stop at the Freiburg Hauptbahnhof. The bus to Stuttgart is busy on Friday night to the last place. When news portals reported on Tuesday by the announcement of the train drivers’ strike, the track was fully booked within a few hours – how many long-distance bus services this weekend. “This is a record weekend,” exults a spokeswoman for the operator MeinFernbus in Berlin.
Even after the cancellation of strikes Sunday, the company has until Monday additional vehicles in use. 150 buses MeinFernbus chic addition on the road, which corresponds to 130 trips per day. A spokesman for the competitors DeinBus says: “We have twice as many passengers as usual on the bus.” The biggest benefit is the improved image for the remote buses this weekend.
In the car-sharing servers also already ran on Tuesday afternoon hot. The prices were gelieben stable at 5-7 euros per 100 kilometers, says a spokesperson for “mitfahrgelegenheit.de”. Nevertheless, the portal should have taken more. Eleven percent of the agreed price is the driver from the mediation. On a typical Friday 100,000 places were booked. In the past week there were more than 250,000.
car rental companies such as Sixt and Europcar spoke of a higher demand, without providing figures. Individual stations were fully booked, says a Sixt spokeswoman.
The Secretary of the German Taxi and Car Rental Association, Thomas Gratz, speaks of 40 to 50 percent more business with the taxi drivers. The spokesman for the Taxi-Ordering App “mytaxi.de” confirms the trend: The bookings have increased by 147 percent alone on Thursday
Taxis remain roadside
The taxi driver at Stuttgart. Central Station on Friday afternoon, however, are the legs in the stomach, because they vainly waiting for train travelers. “I had a ride in one and a half hours,” complained a taxi driver Nuri Ferle. “There is so much storage that you can not drive.”
More on the topicThe German shippers do not benefit from the strike. Scheduled freight that should be transported by freight trains of Deutsche Bahn would be rescheduled at great expense, the spokesman of the German Freight Forwarders and Logistics Association (DSLV) said in Bonn. “This means additional costs, which remain to sit freight forwarders.”
The great German Airlines set according to own data on selected routes, a larger aircraft to carry more passengers. An A380 will not fly on domestic routes, said a Lufthansa spokesman. But will probably even a A320 replaced with a A321 to carry 15 to 20 passengers more. According to an Air Berlin spokesman flights are not fully booked, “I think that car-sharing and buses benefit the most.”
Source: n-tv.de
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