The maneuver that cuts pollution and 21/11/2010
Anna Donati
The law of stability as a matter of rewarding the trucking approval Estanga commuters. From next year in all regions there will be cuts to trains and buses, and fare increase to over 78 percent. The budget, just fired from room is € 400 million for road, 471 million euro for the F-35 fighter jets, and well 245 million for private schools, but confirmed the cuts to regional rail transport which is more than one billion.
The move "seems" to find 425 million to cover the hole, but inrealtà takes them with the resources provided for the purchase of rolling stock for regional transport in the Legislative Decree 185/2008, which amounted to 960 million. The adopted amendment, also written in a tortuous and ambiguous, almost halved the resources for the new trains to cut 'a bit less "service. A real mockery of those 2.5 million commuters who use the train every day to move, Eche had dared to hope that with the arrival of new rolling stock from 2012 would improve the quality of service. Not only that, these resources will be allocated to the regions under certain conditions: that the regions put their own resources to investment and services, which are increased rates and streamlined services.
While it is appropriate and desirable process diefficientamento spending on local public transport and improved road-rail integration. It is unfair that the users have to pay, which are cut quality and quantity of services, while increasing the rates. It 's impossible to enlarge the regions are, with the heavy cuts that are facing for the coming years, to deal with the situation with their own resources. Put short, hands in the pockets of Italians, what the government Berlusconi says he does not want to do.
From next year, less than positive news from the passage of the bill to the Senate, will announce cuts in all areas of transportation for commuters, between 10 and 20% of the service, with robustiaumenti rates. Farewell then to the difficult road to sustainable mobility and development of public transport, cutting services and the scarce supply of low quality when compared with the restodelle European cities. The regions have protested strongly, starting in the summer of Tremonti maneuver that, in addition to cut 9 billion in two years to the regions, had deleted paragraph 302, article 1 of the 2008 Budget Law, which allowed the regions from 2011 to withhold a portion of the excise duty on diesel for the regional rail service. A measure that was worth 1.181 billion and that now threatens the entire regional rail transport, particularly Trenitalia as agreed in the new service contracts with the regions. Hole that did not address the government and the room, if not shameful that the transfer of funds from the trains to the service mentioned above, while the general cuts to the regions and municipalities also will force cuts in public transport by road, from which they seem saved when only 372 million total for the mortgage repayments for the purchase of buses and VAT on service contracts and 94 million for the development of regional services. The regions continue to protest against the cuts have not yet asked for and obtained a meeting with the government, are forced to plan, however, the cuts from the new railway timetable on 12 December, and often also organized public events with commuters. In Tuscany, Asstra, Legambiente Anav and have set up a campaign with a site (
www.notaglialtrasporto.it ) to hear the voice of the commuters. In fact, before the enormity of the cut does not seem to be an adequate reaction from Trenitalia, many are convinced that at the end of the cut will fall and perhaps to the difficulty of organizing a specific action of commuters, the ones who suffer taglialla school, employment, culture ....... E 'likely to explode the protest once it is clear iltaglio transport services.
Asstra has already developed some scenarios, arguing that only a cut of the order of 3 / 5% can be absorbed with efficiency. But if the cut is 10% dellerisorse to keep all services charges will aumentaredel 36% if the cut is a 20% tariff increase will be 78%. If you cut the services, with 20% less resources should be cut every year 392 million-km of bus, tram and metro Equest involves 540 million passengers per year less. These must be added the cut of 7.8 km of train-regional railways (Trenitalia excluded), including 1.5 million fewer passengers. According Asstra, in Italy only '11.6% of journeys are oggisul public transportation: with the cuts announced estimate that return ascend the modal share to 10% in two years, throwing overboard years of efforts to increase the number of passengers and to improve the service. This will also have heavy effects on the environment and congestion in cities, while it underestimated the effect on employment in companies delTPL.
With 20% cut in services will be - according Asstra -19,720 workers redundant and cut, for which there is no form of social safety net specific. Newly unemployed that rests on an economic crisis already heavy for Italian families. Not to mention that cuts in this sector also means to stop the industry. An industry already in trouble for braking of orders due to the economic crisis. And to think that some good news had come to improve the service in the city. A recent conference of the Ministry of Transportation has reviewed the project status of trams and tram-train in Italy. Several cities have now opened new networks such as Padua, Messina, Bergamo, Florence, Cagliari, Sassari, in addition to the networks already in use in Rome, Milan, Naples and Turin, which have a significant success. Other lines are under construction in Venice, Palermo, Florence and Milan. But if you cut the resources for the year as they will turn them in to service to the citizens? How will it be possible to increase the regional transportation as promised, on the lines vacated by long-distance trains that now travel on the new high speed lines? The real risk is that after spending so many resources in public rail infrastructure, now commuters and local transport not derive any benefit for their travels, although the vast majority of daily trips.
