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TUESDAY,
JUNE 21, 2022 - 08:36
Staff shortages, maintenance to cause lots of
train delays this summer
Train
passengers can expect a summer full of delays due to staff shortages and
planned maintenance and other work on the tracks, ProRail said to De Telegraaf.
Extra travel time of at least 30 minutes won't be unusual, the rail manager
said.
"There
will be a lot of inconvenience due to maintenance, and at certain locations,
Rijkswaterstaat will work on the road simultaneously,” Coen van Kranenburg of
ProRail said. Rijkswaterstaat is the Netherlands’ public works department.
“This means that there is nuisance on both the road and the rail, but also that
traffic will be freed from it at once.”
The summer
period usually has fewer commuters on the train and the road. “It is a
conscious choice to carry out so many activities at the same time during the
holiday period,” Van Kranenburg said to the newspaper. “So that there is no
weeks’ long delay, but the ‘suffering’ coincides in a short period.”
Travelers
between Utrecht and Eindhoven will be particularly affected. ProRail has two
major works scheduled for the track on this route.
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