Collins Onyeuku from Lagos, Nigeria paid €1,200 in a taxi for a distance of 600km
Dozens of “collateral casualties” from the a number of sabotage on the French railways on the day of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Video games in Paris. A household spent 1,200 euros to get by taxi from Bordeaux to the French capital!
Particularly, Collins Onyeuku from Lagos, Nigeria paid 1,200 euros in a taxi for a distance of 600 km, to ensure that him and his household of 4 to go to Paris, because the prepare route was canceled in the present day (26/7) within the morning.
The 49-year-old advised the BBC that his spouse and their two daughters, aged 12 and 15, had been ready and planning to attend the opening ceremony for 3 years – and with a six-hour drive they hoped to achieve the French capital in time.
“Initially the employees members (together with at Bordeaux station) didn’t know what had occurred and couldn’t inform us when the trains would return,” Onyeuku stated. “It was a chaotic scenario. We had been making an attempt to get solutions however nobody appeared to know what was occurring. Then we learn within the information that there’s some form of bother on the railways.
“Our prepare service was cancelled, all prepare companies to Paris had been canceled and employees didn’t know when the road could be working once more,” he continued.
“We employed a taxi, paying some huge cash, however my kids wish to see the opening ceremony, so I needed to do it,” he stated. “My ladies had been excited for the ceremony and we've been trying ahead to it for therefore lengthy, so it was an enormous disappointment this morning.” Due to this fact, “I couldn't do in any other case,” stated the ladies' father.
Simply hours earlier than the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, a a number of sabotage on the French rail community paralyzed the high-speed prepare (TGV) community, with not less than 800,000 passengers estimated to be affected.
Supply: cnn.gr
