letters to the editor / I tell the courier
twelve o’clock, June 26, 2021 – 09:09
Dear Director,
the trolleybuses that connect the National Museum to the Aminei Hills and the automatic readers to the central Funicular have arrived, which finally allow you to have tickets without arguing with the machines. I don’t deny these are comforting signs, but I can’t get the feeling that the city transport system really works.
Marco Liotti
Dear Liotti,
She is not wrong. It is advisable to consider favorably the comforting signals coming from some fronts of public transport, but without forgetting the general framework. N that trolleybuses, and the same machines that work with an app, arrive after repeated announcements and exhausting postponements. the usual habit of a certain way of governing: each project is re-proposed in waves. One announcement after another, a series of press conferences, postponements and postponed deadlines. A few days ago we published the news, spread by some trade unions in the transport sector, of the postponement of the commissioning of the new metro trains of Line 1. Technical and bureaucratic problems continue to keep the new trains in storage – five delivered so far in Anm by the company Caf of Bilbao – while the trains in service, built in the nineties, are now at the limits of resistance. Here too, there were many announcements from the mayor and councilors on the putting on the convoys. Those available, out of a total of 20, were delivered to the ANM on 9 March. We are practically at the end of June and only now is a problem emerging that prevents Ustif from giving the green light to the exercise. The unions speak of an energy absorption of the new trains greater than what the network can handle and of a problem in opening the doors, the system of which must be modified. Otherwise the Ustif will not release the eligibility. She asks me if her feeling is right, I tell her that it is. And I would add that there is also a new postponement for the opening of the Duomo station, also announced for June. The works in piazza Nicola Amore began in 2000 and, on the street, the archistar Fuksas also threatened to withdraw his signature on the project. Upset without consulting him.
Enzo d’Errico
June 26, 2021 | 09:09
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