Train strike today 5 November in Rome and throughout Italy. The arrivals and departures board at Termini station is clear: all trains are delayed or cancelled.
Inconveniences, cancellations and long queues at Termini station Of Roma due to the national train strike called for today, Tuesday 5 November. The arrivals and departures board in the capital’s main railway station is clear: all trains are delayed or cancelled. At the station, the queues at all the Trenitalia and Italo info points are very long. In fact, many high-speed trains of the two companies have been canceled and all other trains are announced late on the electronic board. Delays are up to 120 minutes.
Due to the delays, long queues are forming outside Termini station, including at the taxi rank. Inconveniences also in the other stations of the capital, regarding regional trains. Delays of up to 60 minutes on the FL3 line arriving in Viterbo. Traffic stops between S.Pietro and Tiburtina and no trains leaving.
The strike was called from 9am to 5pm today. Trenitalia informed that the agitation could “impact railway traffic and lead to total and partial cancellations of Frecce, Intercity and regional trains”. Furthermore, the effects, in terms of cancellations and delays, could occur “even before and last beyond the end time of the union protest”.
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The reasons for the train strike: the stabbing of the train conductor in Liguria
Today’s strike is proclaimed by Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uilt, Ugl, Fast and Orsa. The reasons are linked to the violent attack which occurred against a train conductor who was seriously stabbed on the Genoa Brignole – Busalla route on regional train 12042.
The episode, explain the unions, “follows in timing, in an escalation of violence on a national scale, the numerous attacks suffered by mobile staff in recent months. Given that the gravity and intolerability of such episodes does not allow for delay and requires urgently requires a firm and decisive intervention to protect the safety and security of workers who provide service to the community on a daily basis”.
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