"the way railway companies are managed has addressed close to 300 000 requirement at the Dmv after last year's all delays, reports Swedish radio Ekot. After the new rules came in the summer have now way railway companies are managed the opportunity to claim the Swedish transport administration for compensation for the delays caused by the failure of the infrastructure."
"a Total relating to claims 108 million."
"– That it would be able to get many applications we had on the feel but how many we knew not. Now we have something to start from and work with, " says Bengt Olsson, head of media relations at the Swedish transport administration, to the Echo."
"the Rules introduced in the summer in order to reduce the number of delays, by letting the party which caused the delay to take the financial responsibility. Last year was a bad year out of tågförseningssynpunkt. 12 per cent of all passenger trains were delayed. A third of them were caused by things such as signal failure, failure of overhead lines, tracks and switches."