The Madrid Metro provides service with 100% of its usual offering during the morning of this general strike day, while the number of users has fallen by 42% at the start of this 24-hour stoppage.
With data collected up to 10 o’clock, the metropolitan company has stated that at that time 100% of the trains were running compared with a normal Wednesday, as it has reported in a message on its official profile on "X".
Between the start of service and 10 o’clock, a total of 388,502 people had used the Madrid metro network, which represents 42% fewer than in the same time window on the previous Wednesday. The trains were running with an average frequency of between 5 and 6 minutes.
For this strike day, the Community of Madrid has set minimum services on the Metro of 80% of trains during peak hours (between 07:30 and 09:30; from 14 to 16 hours and from 18 to 20 hours) and 50% during off-peak hours (the rest of the commercial timetable).
During periods of highest demand, the supply has been increasing as the morning progressed: from 79% of trains at 7:30 (with 21% fewer users) it went to 93% at 9 o’clock (51% fewer travelers) until reaching 100% at 10 o’clock.
For their part, the unions have denounced police charges against the information pickets at the Canillejas and Ventas centers and have criticized minimum services that, as they stress, affect almost 90% of the workforce and that are being complied with. According to data from UGT, among staff who were not included in the minimum services, support for the strike reaches 90%.