The late moment at which the major NS strike of this Tuesday was announced, around half past four on Monday afternoon, posed a problem for a number of train passengers. For listeners who were at a loss, the Omroep Brabant radio program put on ‘WAKKER!’ Tuesday morning into the ‘Wakker taxi’.
Radio producer Jeroen Heijdeman personally drove listeners who had registered to their destination on Tuesday morning. One of them was Kim from Vught. She had to go to work in Oss.
“The bus takes an hour and a half.”
“I should have taken the bus otherwise, but it takes an hour and a half,” she explained. “And it’s really only a twenty-minute piece!”
She works at a car company. Then you wonder… couldn’t she have borrowed a car there for this day? “I hadn’t thought of that,” she admitted with a laugh. “The report about that strike came in very late.”
She doesn’t have to worry about the way back. “My mother already indicated that she can come and pick me up, the ‘mama taxi’. She couldn’t bring it alone, because she had to work early in the morning.”
“I don’t know how else I would have gotten there.”
Jeroen also drove Sacha from Riel to Gelderland. “I have to go all the way to Nijmegen,” she said. “I have to help out there as a volunteer during a congress on visual perception. About 650 neuroscientists from all over Europe and beyond come there. I go there to get coffee and tea for the guests, make sure that the presentations can all take place, and provide lunch. .. I don’t know how else to get there. It would have taken me four hours by bus, so this taxi is a godsend.”
There will also be no NS trains in Brabant on Wednesday, due to a strike. Does she already have an idea how she will solve this problem?
“Yes, I will sleep well next night with someone in Nijmegen.”
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