500,000 Seek Transport Amid Subway Strike
Some Mexico City subway workers staged a wildcat strike against what they called unsafe conditions, shutting down two of the metro system’s 11 lines and forcing about 500,000 people to seek other transportation.
City authorities offered free buses at some subway stations, but crowds formed at others.
“There is a serious risk of a train derailment or collision on these lines, a tragedy, because the monitoring systems don’t work and the trains don’t receive adequate maintenance,” said union leader Fernando Espino Arevalo. The city government denied that there were any safety problems.
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