Important Italian Transportation Strike Information:
Friday, October 18, will be held a general transportation strike throughout Italy in the transport sector. Will be involved in the main cities of the country. The strike will last eight hours and will be at different times for each city. Trains strike starts 17 October from 21.00 to 21.00 on 18 October. The commuter trains will be guaranteed from 6.00 to 9.00 and from 18.00 to 21.00.
Posted by
Seattle, WA
17600 posts
We are in Venice now and the vaporetto stops all have notices posted about the strike on Friday.
Posted by
Toledo, Ohio, US
11613 posts
Thanks, Rik.
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
Usually those 24 hour rail strikes happen starting at 9 pm on Saturday evening, not Friday evening. I wonder what makes this one different? (I double-checked Rik's info at http://www.mit.gov.it/mit/site.php?p=scioperi because I found this so strange. Not surprisingly, Rik is right.)
Posted by
Huntington Beach CA
1170 posts
Darn, I wish I had read this sooner. We got stuck in Lucca last night. We were waiting for the 2130 train to Florence that never showed up so we thought we had to wait for the 2230 train. Luckily, an English speaking Trenitalia agent told us about about the strike and helped us figure out how to get back. We took the last train out of Lucca to Pistoia and cabbed it to Florence. We're €65 poorer but at least we got back to our apt. And now I have a train strike story to tell.
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
16238 posts
We are experiencing the same in the SF Bay Area.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains are on strike since midnight last night. I don't recommend trying to get to SF until it's over. Traffic on the bridges isn't pretty.