AGI – More 10% of seats offered on the regional trains of Trenitalia (FS Italiane Group), about 300 buses ready to integrate the regional offer, over 70 extraordinary assistance facilities and spaces for free tampons to the population in the main stations. Furthermore, in the next few days, the High Speed, medium and long distance offer will be increased to meet the expected increase in transport demand. These are the main actions of the FS Italiane Group taken at the request of the Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, in view of the reopening scheduled for Monday 26 April.
“All actions”, underlines a note, “have the goal of increase the safety of people who will move for work and study reasons. In addition, the activities of the traveling cleaner on board during the train journey will be enhanced. “The offer of regional trains counts 6,900 journeys a day for approximately 2.1 million seats offered, already calculated according to the current capacity at 50%.
The enhancement of Trenitalia’s offer was defined together with the individual Regions, Clients of the service, and the Prefectures through an analysis of the movements in the commuter segments also on the basis of the data of the last weeks and the first months of the school year such as September and October 2020.
Thanks to the agreement between the FS Italiane Group and the Italian Red Cross, gazebos are active in Roma Termini and Milano Centrale to make free swabs to the population. The gazebos will open in the stations of Genoa, Turin, Bologna, Florence, Venice, Naples, Bari, Reggio Calabria, Palermo and Cagliari by 10 May.
“The actions of the FS Italiane Group for the restart confirm the strong attention to the protection of people’s health, as evidenced by the certifications received regarding the sanitation procedures provided on board the train and in the work spaces “, concludes the note.
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