Not only the government has rejected a bill to fund 1000 new trains, as well as the proposed Transport Commission of the Chamber now the ax falls on public transport and on current levels of service, and are emerging for massive cuts in the coming years that would undoubtedly be a fatal blow to public transportation. The "great works" but not discussed: it cancels trains into service but continues to fund the bridge over the Strait, as well as other roads and highways. Increasingly, transportation costs will be charged to individual citizens, is increasingly weighing on the already anemic family finances.
Legambiente: "At the risk on two trains for commuters.
Saltano service contracts in all regions."
For Legambiente, the protest of the region against the cuts to commuter trains contained in the operation of government is not only understandable, but also insufficient to understand the effect that the cuts were for Italian citizens who every day take the train for work or study. The environmental group has analyzed the number of cycles that affect commuters who travel by train, and these figures are simply shocking: compared to this year, cutting of resources for the rail service is 53%, 67% to Trenitalia.
In fact, the cut on "rail services to regional and local interest in a concession provided for in Annex 1 of the operation, amounted to € 1,223 million for the year 2011, of which 1181 with Trenitalia and 42 to other dealers. If we consider that this item of the state budget, which guarantees the trains into service in the regions, the figure in 2010 stood at 2.287 million to 1.748 million in Trenitalia and 539 other dealers, we understand that what emerges is a real catastrophe of the commuter rail service in our country.
"But Tremonti Matteoli and have no idea the effect that the maneuver will result in 2011 in Italian cities? - Asks Edward Zanchini, head of transport Legambiente. The government must explain to two million and 700 thousand Italians who take the train every day for work or study what alternatives they have in mind for them. With less than half the resources than this year as it might seem to run the service? ".
Legambiente launches an alarm open to all commuters in Italy to hear a strong protest against a decision determining the effects environmental and social drama, because fewer trains means more cars on the road, the city's most congested and polluted, more inconvenience to commuters who already suffer from too many on trains often old and crowded.
Furthermore, in operation, cuts are clearly defined for individual entries for 2011, but it is already expected to continue for 2012 and 2013. For commuters is a real joke, because starting this year had to begin to see improvements, as expected in the Italian cities and regions, the new service contracts with six years of life were to guarantee. But the cuts are likely to be canceled all the agreements already signed. Legambiente It shows that more cuts are spread over different items that affect the local public transport service, for a total of more 217 million euros, while no resources are taken away to finance the Objective Law. "A choice simply absurd - -. It adds Zanchini cancel trains into service in the cities while continuing to fund the bridge over the Strait of Messina, as well as new highways and roads. I'm not sure that these investments are used to lead Italy out of the crisis, let alone when cutting essential services. "
Governor of Piedmont Cota said he was reassured by Tremonti, would ensure that attention to the regions of virtue, asking them to cover any holes. Legambiente for the "assurances" Tremonti is a way of shuffling the cards with the numbers available will be simply impossible, in Piedmont, to ensure timely service, let alone the improvements that they have undertaken to implement the contracts signed in 2010 to six years almost everywhere with Trenitalia.
service contracts in force and cut the bill in 2011
The table shows the amount of the service contract with Trenitalia for the Italian Regions in 2010 and those available in 2011 according to the maneuver Government. The cuts to the regions are calculated according to the parameters of proportionality established by the law of transfer of power in rail transport to the regions (the so-called Bassanini Law, Law 59 of 1997).
The additional appropriations for the Regions of the Service Contract
The table shows the figures that the regions have allocated additional resources as compared to the Service Contract 2010. As is evident no intervention by the regions will recover the cuts. There is therefore no coincidence that the regions have been established in a unanimous decree unconstitutional because they removed the money but not the functions and this contradicts the provisions of the Constitutional Court. "
