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Basel trams have been attacked too often in France. Now, the transport company stops the lines at night at the Swiss border.
Vandals damaged a slice of a Basel 3 Series tramway in St. Louis (F) on Tuesday. The line was interrupted for one hour. The attack was not the first. Since the beginning of March he has been driving at night with security guards.
The stone flew Tuesday just before 11 am at St. Louis station in the tram disc at a halt, said a spokesman for Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) at the Keystone news agency -SDA. BVB had decided not to serve the line towards Saint-Louis until the local authorities had clarified the incident. Shortly after noon, line 3 crosses the border again as planned.
The incident was not the first on this foreign section of the tram line 3. Already "for several weeks" at this terminus "cases of increasing vandalism" were recorded. That is why the conduct of three men since the beginning of the month in the evening from 20 hours on the French ground with two people of a security service on board.
Swiss Security Society
The security agents reserved the BVB in a Swiss company. They are not armed in the tram on the way. According to the spokesman, the mission in Alsace corresponds approximately to the security expenses in the usual nocturnal network of the Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz (TNW).
Since then, the situation has improved, "especially during the day and during the week", as we learned later. The monitoring of Basel trams on Alsatian soil will continue Friday and Saturday night until further notice. The BVB would be in close contact with the local authorities.
According to BVB, the damages caused to the tram-drive are not "very important", but the security personnel "in the first two weeks" reached a high amount to four figures. The weekend stop now entails a reduction in costs.
Line in operation since one year
The section of Basel via Bourgfelden (F) in Saint-Louis (F) was inaugurated a year ago. The Tramverlängerung should strengthen cohesion in the region and boost bilateral relations, she said at the celebration. An earlier tramway line in St. Louis was installed 60 years ago.
For the moment, one tramway on two runs on the new rails of 3.1 kilometers towards Saint-Louis, one every 15 minutes of the day. A park + carousel with 740 parking spaces has also been built at the terminus. With this, the project costs 91.3 million francs. With the P + R, the 3rd Alsatian commuter should get on the tram. (SDA)
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