Cologne - Cologne KVB customers on Monday afternoon took a lot of patience. Because of delays of up to 30 minutes, and traffic jams on the light rail lines made a trip to Wartespiel.
What happened? KVB EXPRESS.DE spokesman Joachim Berger said: "We had a points failure on the road in Herler Buchheim. Thus the switch, which normally had to be automatically unstellt, each cranked by hand."
And so built up for the delay. What began on the route of lines 3, 13 and 18, soon extended to large parts of the network. And so it happened that in the early evening rush hour was jam-packed on the platforms.
From 14.30 until 17.30 clock, the clock switch was defective and was operated by hand - then the traffic started to roll normally.
