The driver shortage contributed to lower punctuality

Just over 90 percent of Swedish passenger trains arrived on time in April, according to the Swedish Transport Administration.

It is one of the lowest figures for the month of April in the last ten years.

The Swedish Transport Administration’s preliminary figures for April show that roughly 72,900 out of roughly 80,700 passenger trains reached their final station on time. This corresponds to a punctuality of approximately 90 percent.

In terms of punctuality, the month of April was slightly better than March. At the same time, punctuality in April 2023 was lower than all the months of April in the last ten years – with the exception of 2022.

According to the Swedish Transport Administration, among other things, the shortage of train drivers and the wild strike in Stockholm’s commuter train service made it difficult for punctuality. The month’s many holidays and frost that came out of the ground are also mentioned as reasons.

“The fact that we do everything we can to get the traffic in order as quickly as possible is of course a small consolation when your own train is not on time or even worse – does not run at all. But nothing now has a higher priority for me and my colleagues than to create better foresight and higher reliability, because right now we have a little too many troublesome stops on various fronts,” says Anna Ericsson, head of the Transport business area at the Swedish Transport Administration, on the authority’s website .

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Punctuality in April

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