Over one million Bucharest inhabitants had to find analternative way to travel yesterday following the strike of bus,trolley bus and tramcar drivers, who demand salaries of at least3,000 RON per month.
The so-called "spontaneous strike" of the 4,500 bus, trolley busand tramcar drivers cancelled Bucharest's 2.7 million dailytrips.
For Bucharest, which is a "metropolis on wheels", a strike ofpublic transportation workers is a genuine disaster. Yesterday itdisturbed the daily route of over one million travellers (astandard trip home-work-back home was considered), more than doubleas many as would be affected by a similar action from "rival"underground transportation operator Metrorex, which carries 479,000travellers daily, according to company data for 2009.
Heavily subsidised by the City Hall (unlike Metrorex, subsidised bythe state via the Ministry of Transportation), Bucharest's groundtransportation has become a burden to Bucharest's budget.
Out of the revenues expected by the City Hall for 2010, around 950million euros, half the sum will go to subsidies for RATB(Bucharest Transportation Public Corporation) and RADET (HeatingPublic Corporation).
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