Oh, no! SCIOPERO! (need help)
 

I have train tickets from Bari to Florence, change in Bologna, in mid-March, and see now that there is a train strike in Emilia Romagna scheduled for my travel date. If the strike doesn't get canceled, then how does this work? The train leaves Bari at 9:38, arrives Bologna 15:14, then connecting train 15:35 to Florence. Does it just stop at the edge of the Emilia Romagna on its way to Bologna? Does everyone have to get off at the last stop before the ER region?

I hope someone can help me with this. The strike schedule says: Trenitalia SpA - Regione Emilia Romagna. Clicking on the Azioni tab, it says: Sindacati - Usb Lavoro Privato. What does all of this mean?

Is it a strike proof train?

What date are you traveling? What link are you looking at?

List of strike proof trains in that region

http://www.trenitalia.com/cms-file/a...ia_Romagna.pdf

It appears the strike ends at 5pm.

I don't know how to find out if it's a strike proof train. My link for that goes nowhere. And the train starts in Bari.

Traveling on Sunday 15 March. I got my info from the Commissione di Garanzia Scopiero site.

We were posting at the same time, kyb. I don't see any trains from Bari in your link. Assuming the train leaves Bari, I need to know what happens when it gets to Pesaro, the last stop before the ER region.

You should have seen a chart of strike proof trains for that region and then you see if your train number is on it. No clue why my link didn't work (works when I click it). Try this and scroll down to the region you want and click for the link.

http://www.trenitalia.com/cms/v/inde...008916f90aRCRD

After you click the region from that link, you should be able to find this link to click.

Treni garantiti Emilia Romagna (.pdf 683 KB)

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Holly,
I've ridden that same route a few times to travel to RM's house in Puglia, all along the coast. I'm not sure what to do about the strike (whether or not your train will continue) though yours is probably a national route rather than a local route.

Another possibility is to rebook a route avoiding Emilia Romagna. You might find Bari to Rome and then Rome to Florence. I've done the Bari to Rome route as well.

If I rebook to go through Rome instead of Bologna, I won't get my original ticket refunded. Is that correct? Especially since I bought it at a huge discount 2 months ago (and I'll never do that again!).

I don't think I would bother finding another route. The strike ends at 5 so you might have to hang out an extra 1 1/2 hours in Bologna.

Check for your train numbers on these national routes that are guaranteed to run.

http://www.trenitalia.com/cms-file/a..._garantiti.pdf

The trains you are taking, from Bari to Bologna and from Bologna to Firenze are Freccia class trains and it is my understanding that all Freccia trais are guaranteed to run in the event of strike.

Not only that, in all my experience of Italian train strikes, once you get on a train, it completes its journey to its scheduled destination, even when a strike begins afterwards, or if you pass through a region having a stoke.

stoke = strike

The strike affects only administrative personnel on the regional train network, so it won't affect any long-distance trains, such as the Freccia trains. Since the administrators don't drive the trains, there should be no problem at all for travelers, and anyway, if this is a Freccia train, it's not affected by the strike at all.

Strikes do affect Freccia trains, at least in theory, but Trenitalia tries its best to keep those trains running, so often the effect is minimal.

When looking for guaranteed long-distance trains (Freccia trains as well as IC trains) you don't want to click on the region as indicated by KYBourbon above. Instead, you want to click on one (or two) of the links to the right:

The first, which you always have to check is the first link, "Programma treni lunga/media percorrenza ...". The second link is a list of additional guaranteed trains for strikes that fall on a Sunday or holiday, which last less than 24 hours, and that begin at 9 PM the day before.

On both of these lists, and also the regional lists indicated by Kybourbon, you have to look for your train under its train number, not by the departure time or the station where you're boarding the train. The lists are in train number order. You can find the train number and the type of train on the Trenitalia schedules, in the column "treno".

I've gone into a lot of detail for the benefit of others that are reading this, but Holly doesn't need to worry about her train, which shouldn't be affected at all.

Thank you. Thank You! THANK YOU!!!