Public transport

One thing Zürich is famous for is the public transport which is just so well organized. Everything is about trams here. You have trams going often and going everywhere - so (speaking from personal experience) it's very easy to become spoilt in terms of public transport here. My "oh only 4 minutes until the next tram" attitude in January has smoothly changed into "oh no, another 4 minutes!!!" by now...

Anyways, the reason I'm writing this post is that yesterday morning the trams in the northern part of Zürich were not working. What happens in Tallinn this situation? Nothing. There would be 10 trams standing in a row on Pärnu road or in Kadriorg, waiting for hours until the cause of the traffic outage is removed...
What happened here!? There were texts explaining the situation on screens at tram stops, you can hear a guy's voice every five minutes from speakers - also explaining which lines don't work. The same voice also inside buses, operating trams etc... Tram lines which have interruption to their normal route are driving along a modified route and there are substitute buses for the region where the trams are not moving...

Even though everything was handled so well there was still a huge mess. Well - in my case mainly because my German comprehension is still rather weak - especially if they're speaking the local dialect :D So it took 40 minutes instead the usual 20 min to get to work :)

However, the story has another side. Let's talk about the reason to the situation due to which thousands of people couldn't start their day normally? - Hereby I  confess that I don't have facts but this is just the story I heard.

So, the tram lines whose operation was disturbed drive through a tunnel (check the picture from one of the previous posts ;) ). Apparently, there had been a fight - yes, a fight between two guys on Tuesday morning (!) at a tram stop just before the tram tunnel. A German dude attacked a Swiss guy and escaped into the tram tunnel - and in order not to possibly injure the criminal in the dark tunnel, the traffic in the tunnel is stopped for hours. :D No comments.
Anyways, the police caught him eventually and everyone should be happy now :)