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The Tram Strike in Alicante Expands from This Monday: Timetables, Strikes, and Minimum Services

The Tram Strike in Alicante Expands from This Monday: Timetables, Strikes, and Minimum Services

FGV and unions have not progressed in hiring new drivers to improve the service

José Vicente Pérez Pardo

Alicante

Domingo, 2 de febrero 2025, 19:51

The strike in the Alicante Tram intensifies from this Monday, February 3, and throughout the month, due to the lack of agreement between the workers' representatives and the Generalitat. The four unions present in the TRAM d'Alacant company committee (UGT, CCOO, SEMAF, and SF) called these partial strikes since January 27 to urge the management of Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (FGV) to approve the improvements agreed upon by both parties in a deal last November.

The strikes will affect all lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Tram d'Alacant, especially during peak hours, both to and from work. If during the last week of January, the strike schedule was Monday to Friday, from 7 to 10 am. From this Monday, the strikes will be Monday to Friday, both from 7 to 10 am and from 6 to 9 pm.

Meanwhile, FGV reminds that minimum services of 75% will be offered from 7 to 10 am. They do not report on the minimum services during the partial strikes in the afternoon.

In a statement, they indicate that on November 20, 2024, the management of Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) and the Company Committee signed an agreement establishing service improvements, with the incorporation of nine driver positions "without additional economic cost".

Specifically, doubling the frequency with stops between Luceros and El Campello - to go from every 30 minutes to every 15 -, expanding trains on lines 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the TRAM.

Similarly, the agreement includes the possibility of changing the composition from single to double trains, to optimize the capacity of this public transport according to the demand on each line.

The Company Committee insists that these measures should have come into effect on January 8 and maintain that three weeks later "they are forced to continue with the mobilizations in the face of the silence of the Conselleria".

The group apologizes to TRAM users "for the inconvenience this strike may cause", which began on January 27.

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