https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German passengers were hailed for preventing a disaster at the weekend when they were able to bring a runaway tram to a halt after the driver lost consciousness. https://www.thelocal.de/20191223/german-passengers-hailed-for-stopping-horror-tram Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:49:47 +0100 german-passengers-hailed-for-stopping-horror-tram Over 40 people were injured when two trams collided at a station just outside Cologne’s Altstadt on Thursday evening. Police suspect one driver of being drunk. https://www.thelocal.de/20180316/dozens-injured-in-cologne-tram-crash-driver-reportedly-drunk Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:07:13 +0100 dozens-injured-in-cologne-tram-crash-driver-reportedly-drunk On Sunday morning, a 24-year-old British man was seriously injured in an accident involving a tram, reported Süddeutsche Zeitung. https://www.thelocal.de/20171204/tourist-severely-injured-in-munich-tram-accident Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:35:56 +0100 tourist-severely-injured-in-munich-tram-accident A 57-year-old woman was killed and her companion was severely injured in Berlin’s Friedrichshain neighbourhood early on Saturday morning when a drunk man crashed his vehicle into the tram stop they were waiting at. https://www.thelocal.de/20171016/woman-killed-in-east-berlin-after-drunkard-crashes-car-into-tram-stop Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:07:23 +0200 woman-killed-in-east-berlin-after-drunkard-crashes-car-into-tram-stop A 26-year-old man was arrested in Cologne on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder, after an American teenager was pushed in front of a tram in Cologne the day before. https://www.thelocal.de/20170726/police-make-arrest-after-american-tourist-pushed-in-front-of-tram-in-cologne Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:13:49 +0200 police-make-arrest-after-american-tourist-pushed-in-front-of-tram-in-cologne Two trams collided head first on Thursday morning in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, leaving 27 people with injuries and leading to suspensions on two lines. https://www.thelocal.de/20170629/twenty-seven-injured-in-serious-tram-crash-in-north-berlin Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:09:54 +0200 twenty-seven-injured-in-serious-tram-crash-in-north-berlin Almost 50 people spent a night in police custody after they were rounded up by police at a tram stop in the south east of Munich. https://www.thelocal.de/20161219/munich-police-under-fire-after-mass-arrest-at-tram-stop Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:50:16 +0100 munich-police-under-fire-after-mass-arrest-at-tram-stop On Wednesday a Syrian teenager reported she had been kicked off Berlin public transport for wearing a headscarf. It now appears that was a misunderstanding. https://www.thelocal.de/20161201/syrian-teen-kicked-off-berlin-tram-for-food-not-headscarf Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:35:19 +0100 syrian-teen-kicked-off-berlin-tram-for-food-not-headscarf A 14-year-old from Syria has reported a Berlin tram driver to police, claiming he told her to get off the vehicle because she was wearing a headscarf. https://www.thelocal.de/20161130/syrian-teen-kicked-off-berlin-tram-for-wearing-headscarf Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:38:58 +0100 syrian-teen-kicked-off-berlin-tram-for-wearing-headscarf A 29-year-old man assaulted a teenage girl with a small truncheon after she looked at his crying child in a way that upset him. https://www.thelocal.de/20161118/man-attacks-teen-on-munich-tram-for-looking-at-crying-baby Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:19:15 +0100 man-attacks-teen-on-munich-tram-for-looking-at-crying-baby Almost 34,000 people were dragged before Berlin's courts for fare-dodging in 2014, as the capital's public transport company cracks down hard on travelling without a ticket. https://www.thelocal.de/20151217/berlin-fare-dodging-fines-increase-by-7000-percent Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:49:16 +0100 berlin-fare-dodging-fines-increase-by-7000-percent Trains, buses and trams across Germany are set to get around 2.4 percent more expensive for passengers in January's annual price re-jig. https://www.thelocal.de/20151012/public-transport-price-hike-to-hit-nationwide Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:39:28 +0200 public-transport-price-hike-to-hit-nationwide On the busy streets of central Munich, where the distinction between foot zone and tram line is often rather fluid, tram drivers sound a bell reminding pedestrians it would be in their best interest to move out of the way. But a high-tech new system has set alarm bells ringing among public transport purists. https://www.thelocal.de/20150302/munichs-new-tram-alarm-upsets-traditionalists Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:58:57 +0100 munichs-new-tram-alarm-upsets-traditionalists