Hundreds of thousands protest Barcelona train service

AFP, December, 2007

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona on Saturday to protest against the recent chaos in the local train system after service was suspended for 42 days.

The platform the Right to Decide (PDD) called for the protest to demand that infrastructure management in Catalonia be transferred to the autonomous government there, and also demanded more "respect" for the northeastern region of ...