Germany and France introduced super fast traffic voice between Berlin and Paris, which will cover that section to cross in about eight hours. The train will run once a day, and the operator will be the German railway Deutsche Bahn, the AP agency reported.
The journey between the two capitals will take about eight hours. The launch of the new superfast train line comes as Deutsche Bahn seeks to boost reliability and punctuality, after last month only 60 percent of long-distance trains arrived on time, or less than six minutes late, according to the AP.
The train will leave Berlin at 11.54:19.55 a.m. and arrive in Paris at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. every day.
Departure from Paris is planned for 9.55:18.03 a.m., and arrival in Berlin for XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
The starting price for a second class train ticket will be 60 euros.
According to the new timetable, Soko runs every two hours
During that time, as "Nedeljnik" writes, without any prior notice, the company "Srbija Voz" canceled every other departure of the high-speed train "Soko" on the Belgrade-Novi Sad route from today, according to some passengers.
Instead of the previous departures every hour, "Soko" trains now run every two hours. This change found dozens of passengers who use this line to go to work every day at the relocated station - in Petrovaradin, without any announcement or explanation.
As one of the passengers said, this morning the passengers on the departure from Petrovarina at 08:35 noticed that something was wrong, but they only learned from the conductor that some departures had been cancelled.
"They told us that they also don't have accurate information about the reasons for these changes, but they were told that trains now leave every two hours," said one of the passengers.
No answers to key questions
Attempts to get an explanation from the authorities were again only attempts.
Media's call to the center of the railway station resulted in a transfer to information, because as they say from this service, "they are not the same company". They said that it is necessary to call "information" and from this service they refer to the "call center".
And that's where you hit the wall, because the calls either went unanswered or were cut off.
Last night, on the official "Srbija voz" Instagram profile, a statement was published about the changes to the timetable, however, there was no information about departures from the Petrovaradin station either.
The key questions that remained unanswered are what are the reasons for the cancellation of certain departures, why passengers were not informed about changes to the timetable, as well as, perhaps one of the most important these days, when will the main station in Novi Sad be operational again?
Uncertainty and problems with the station in Petrovaradin
In addition to the cancellation of departures, passengers are also facing problems related to the train station in Petrovaradin, which has temporarily taken over the role of the main station for Novi Sad.
The station on Petrovaradin, although reconstructed, was not planned for the volume of traffic it now faces, which further complicates the situation for passengers. The transfer of traffic from the main station in Novi Sad to Petrovaradin took place without clear communication with the public. All that the citizens got since then was the introduction of free public transport that goes to the station in Petrovaradin, as well as speculation about when they will be able to travel again (primarily to work) under normal circumstances.
There is still no information on when traffic will resume from the main railway station in Novi Sad, nor on when the railway to Subotica will be opened. The previously announced opening was moved from November 24th to December 8th, but there has been no talk of it since then.
Source: AP / Nedeljnik
