The Metro de Madrid provides service at 91% in the first hours of the afternoon during the general strike day, while the number of users has dropped by 39% compared with a usual Wednesday.
With data from 2 p.m., the metropolitan company has detailed that at that time 91% of the trains are running compared with standard service on a Wednesday during that same time slot, as it has stated in a message on its official account on "X".
Between the start of service and 2 p.m., a total of 680,920 people had used the Madrid metro network, which represents a 39% decline compared with the same time interval on the previous Wednesday. During this period, the trains maintained an average headway of between 5 and 6 minutes.
The Community of Madrid has set minimum services for the strike that guarantee 80% of trains during peak hours (between 07:30 and 09:30; between 14:00 and 16:00 and between 18:00 and 20:00) and 50% during off-peak hours, that is, for the rest of the day.
In the segments with higher demand, the supply of trains has been increasing as the morning progressed, rising from 79% of trains at 7:30 a.m. (with 21% fewer passengers) to 93% at 9 a.m. (51% fewer users) and reaching 100% at 10 a.m.
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 emphasize, affect almost 90% of the workforce and that are being complied with. According to UGT data, among staff who did not have minimum services assigned, strike follow-through reaches 90%.