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Gothenburg trains face Friday delays

A now repaired electrical fault near Gothenburg affected rail traffic locally on Friday morning, with backlog delays expected after engineers restored the current on the first stretch of the important west to east coast track.

Published: 5 April 2013 07:47 CEST
Gothenburg trains face Friday delays

A stop between Alingsås and Herrljunga, near Sweden’s second city Gothenburg, has halted all traffic between the two stations.

“This affects a lot of trains, and it’s a stretch with a lot of commuter traffic,” spokeswoman Bodil Sonesson at the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) told the TT news agency.

A team of engineers was dispatched by 7.45am to find the fault.

The high speed 7:40am Gothenburg to Stockholm train managed to leave Gothenburg just five minutes late. The next train that stops at Alingsås on its way on towards Skövde and Stockholm, however, was expected to face delays of about 45 minutes.

The transport administration will update its prognosis once the engineers file a report from the scene.

This story was updated at 8.22am. Please check with your local train operator for further information on delays.

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POLITICS

Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Green Party and Left Party have managed to oust the right-wing Moderates from power in Gothenburg, despite failing to strike a coalition deal with the Centre Party.

Published: 28 October 2022 15:34 CEST
Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party will now take over the municipality with Jonas Attenius, group leader for the Social Democrats in the city, becoming the new mayor.

“We three parties are ready to together take responsibility for leading Gothenburg,” Attenius wrote to TT. “I am looking forward immensely to leading Gothenburg in the coming years.” 

The three parties will lead a minority government, with 40 out of 81 mandates, meaning it will dependent on mandates from the Centre Party to pass proposals. 

The three parties had hoped to bring the Centre Party into the coalition, but talks fell apart on Monday,  October 24th. 

“We our going into opposition, but our goal is to be an independent, liberal force, which can negotiate both to the left and to the right,” the party’s group leader in Gothenburg, Emmyly Bönfors told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper. 

The end of talks in Gothenburg leave the Social Democrats leading coalition governments in all three of Sweden’s major cities, with Karin Wanngård appointed Mayor of Stockholm on October 17th. 

The Social Democrats had unbroken control in Malmö since 1994, after they regained power from the Moderates, who controlled the city from 1991-1994, and also from 1985-1988. 

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