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Eight hurt as Gothenburg trams collide

Eight people sustained injuries after two trams collided in central Gothenburg on Thursday morning causing severe traffic problems.

Published: 18 July 2013 11:56 CEST
Eight hurt as Gothenburg trams collide

Three of the injured people were taken to Mölndal hospital.

The collision occurred between a tram plying route five from Östra Sjukhuset to Länmandsgården. On approaching the Avenyn/Vasagatan crossing, it crashed into a tram plying route one from Tynnered to Östra Sjukhuset.

The route five tram crashed into the side of the other, forcing both off the rails.

The accident has caused traffic chaos in central Gothenburg as it is expected to take a significant amount of time to clear the carriages. Problems have been accentuated by summer road works in various parts of the city directing more traffic through the busy road junction at Avenyn/Vasagatan.

It remained unclear at midday on Thursday which driver was at fault and should have given way.

“We don’t know who should have stopped, that will emerge. But the driver in our tram acted in a very professional manner,” said a passenger to the local Göteborgs-Posten daily.

The traffic situation in Gothenburg has been further complicated by the Gothia Cup youth football tournament which is being held in the city.

The Gothia Cup , or World Youth Cup, is the world’s largest youth football tournament for those aged 11-19-years-old. Each July some 1,600 teams from more than 70 countries descend on Gothenburg to pit their wits on the pitch.

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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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