[net-gold] Snarled Train Traffic Forces Passengers Onto Roofs [MOSCOW]
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- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:38:16 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:59:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sue Fraser <xcschild@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Snarled Train Traffic Forces Passengers Onto Roofs [MOSCOW]
Snarled Train Traffic Forces Passengers Onto Roofs
08 July 2010 - By Alexey Eremenko - The Moscow Times
Passengers on Moscow’s commuter trains have been forced to ride on roofs and
between cars after repair work caused mass cancellations of trains on at least
half of the main rail links into the city.
Some news reports linked the cancellations to the upcoming opening of a Sapsan
bullet train to Nizhny Novgorod, scheduled for July 30, but railroad officials
denied any connection.
More than 100 of the 270 daily commuter trains running on the Gorkovskaya
Railroad to Kursky Station have been canceled or rescheduled until mid-July, an
operator for Moscow Railways’ hotline told The Moscow Times on Wednesday.
The rail lines to Kievsky and Savyolovksy stations have also seen a wave of
cancellations, and passengers have complained of problems at the Yaroslavsky and
Paveletsky stations as well.
That means schedule changes are causing havoc to at least half of Moscow
Railways 10 main lines.
The cancellations have created hour-long gaps in the schedule, mostly during
non-rush-hour periods during the day and never on weekends, the Moskovsky
Komsomolets daily reported Wednesday.
But passengers are still accumulating at stations and storming functioning
trains, crowding them to the point that entry becomes physically impossible and
the people inside start to faint in the scorching summer heat.
The more reckless passengers have mounted the roofs, risking death from the
3,000-volt electric current overhead. No casualties have been reported.
Railroad representatives said all schedule changes were announced in advance and
the repair works necessitating the changes could only be conducted in the
summertime.
<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/
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<http://tinyurl.com/2exrovq>
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Sue Fraser
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