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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. the BVB had decided not to serve the line to St. Louis until the local authorities had solved the problem. 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.
Trouble at the weekend
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.
Although the damage to the tram-drive by BVB "is not very important", the security personnel cost "a high amount at four digits" in the first two weeks only. Stopping the weekend now entails a reduction in costs.
3 years on the road
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. At the arrival station, a Park Ride facility with 740 parking spaces was built. With this, the project costs 91.3 million francs. With the P R should bring the 3rd Alsatian commuter on the tram. (Amu / SDA)
Created: 27.11.2018, 16:41
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