Roel Salden will leave ProRail on 1 September as Director of Traffic Control. According to reliable sources the news comes in a week with the Telegraaf that Prorail announces that lines may be out of service due to a lack of personnel. The rail manager still has at least 60 vacancies that will not all be filled within a short time. On Thursday and Friday, trains were canceled on the Utrecht Centraal-Arnhem Centraal, Ede-Wageningen and Barneveld Zuid and Utrecht Centraal and Rhenen routes because an air traffic controller called in sick at the very last minute. Last weekend it was hit again because, in their own words, “the now known understaffing".

Earlier this year, trains were unable to run or were limited due to understaffing. In most cases, the personnel problems related to the traffic control post in Utrecht. Roel Salden, Director of Traffic Control at ProRail, has now announced his departure as of 1 September. He is said to have told employees that he would not be the right person to 'get the basics in order' at the traffic control posts.

Rover

A problem is difficult to manage, but the nuisance can sometimes be limited. Now that train traffic is occasionally thinned out by ProRail due to staff shortages, Rover wants at least attention to be paid to providing correct travel information. Rover finds the situation very annoying and states that this deserves high attention within ProRail. In addition, Rover points to some major errors in the travel information. For example, ProRail stated that fewer Intercity trains ran between Amersfoort and Amsterdam, while in practice there were no Intercity trains at all. Also the last time this problem occurred, the travel information was flawed.

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