ITALY: NATIONWIDE BUS AND TRAM STRIKE CREATES CHAOS IN CITIES.

Record ID: 341985

  • Title: ITALY: NATIONWIDE BUS AND TRAM STRIKE CREATES CHAOS IN CITIES.
  • Date: 24th October 1969
  • Summary: BUSES IN DEPOT; JAM IN VENICE SQUARE; ROME; GIRLS ON MOPED; PEOPLE BOARDING ARMY LORRIES; LORRIES PAST COLOSSEUM; PEOPLE BOARDING MINIBUSES AND OPEN LORRIES. Initials GL/V/MR/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th November 1969 13:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA69GNGMR5HL5LH0U6WZLV0NIMH
  • Story Text: ITALY'S WAVE OF STRIKES CONTINUED TODAY (FRIDAY) WITH A 24-HOUR NATIONWIDE BUS AND TRAM STRIKE WHICH CAUSED HUGE TRAFFIC JAMS IN MANY OF ITALY'S MAJOR TOWNS AND CITIES. CAR OWNERS WHO TRIED TO DRIVE TO WORK WERE OFTEN UNABLE TO PARK AND FORMED A FUMING, HOOTING MASS OF FRUSTRATION.

    THE JAM IN ROME'S VENICE SQUARE WAS TYPICAL OF MANY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, WHILE LUCKIER COMMUTERS WENT TO WORK ON MOPEDS OR THE ARMY LORRIES AND OTHER VEHICLES WHICH PROVIDED EMERGENCY TRANSPORT.

    FOR THE ITALIAN PUBLIC, WITHOUT NEWSPAPERS SINCE WEDNESDAY AND WITH NO POSTAL SERVICES FOR THE PAST FOUR DAYS, THERE SEEMED NO IMMEDIATE PROSPECT OF AN END TO THE STRIKES.
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