For daily commuters who travel to Catania, students, workers who choose the train, among other things means that there is more environmentally friendly, the inconvenience and inefficiency increase more and more. But Etna reached the coveted goal of the city waiting for them there is a timely and coordinated public transport, like in any urban reality of the world, take them immediately to the target, almost like a joke to them, they expect a further unnecessary waiting 15, 20, 30 minutes before you start the useful first bus of AMT. In this hour commuters are concerned that the new winter times, in force since 12 December, will also further reduction in Serbian supply trains on the routes already covered by cuts in recent months "there was already in October - says Joshua Malaponti, coordinator Committee commuters Messina Catania Siracusa - a deletion of ten races on the Messina-Catania and seven on Caltagirone Gela- Catania. Sicily, explains Malaponti-live a unique situation compared to the rest of the country, because it is the only region not to have a service contract with the only train operator which operates on the island, Trenitalia, acting virtually without control. " In fact, a year and a half ago by the then Regional Minister for Transport Nino Strano not signed at the ministerial service contract of six years (with renewal for a further six planned) with Trenitalia, justifying it with a bureaucratic delay in regional offices. "At this point you decide the Sicily Region - warns the coordinator of commuters-close to a service contract with Trenitalia, or launch a public tender for the service regional rail passenger transport, so that travelers can be protected for example with a penalty against the operator for the railroad or delays in adopting a general card of the passenger. " The Committee commuters Messina Catania Siracusa has existed since 2001, and the various regional councilor for Transport so many promises, but poor results, even increases in the rates, as in 2007 when the commissioner Dore Misuraca approved the 20% increase in price in return for more services by Trenitalia, who remained a dead letter. The most common disruptions are: overcrowding, sometimes vehicles without heating in winter and air conditioning in summer, especially on poorly cleaned the terms of the upholstery of the seats, lack of sun blinds, lighting of carriages deficient, often malfunctioning doors intercommunicate and those of up and down daily delays and cancellations sudden early morning train, failure to trade that block the circulation, failure to timely information to users in the various stations and on board the train, monitor stations that suddenly go off and do not give no further communication, inadequate entrusted the ticket at some stations only to travel agents and then closed at times, longer duration of equal distances of kilometers compared to the previous lack of coincidence between the bus and train terminal. "In 2002-add-Malaponti Regione Siciliana, Provincia di Catania, Catania Municipality, Trenitalia, AMT and Circumetnea, had signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at achieving a single ticket for train-bus, as in many other cities, but to date there are new. " Of the 50,000 commuters who arrive in Sicily from Messina to Catania 4000 and they have 24 trains in total return, those from Syracuse with a thousand seven races available, but those from Gela, Caltagirone only 3 runs, a few passengers. "With regard to the amount of passengers is very dependent on the quantity and quality of fact-on-clear Malaponti Gela Caltagirone Catania for a limited period of time the trains were introduced which used to make it an hour and forty minutes instead of the current two hours and ten minutes and were full of passengers. " For two years the commuter who arrives by train in the morning to the train station of Catania is forced to wait at the terminus of AMT, in front, from fifteen to thirty minutes depending on the daily delay of the train "I arrive at 7 for example, 30 - refers Malaponti-but the train never arriving on time, does not allow me to get on the first bus is also useful with the same time, so I have to wait for the next, making me get to work late. " Therefore, the Committee
Commuters hopes that soon the region and who manages the railway line to sign up for services, so that if there are inefficiencies will be provided for financial penalties which could be reinvested in improving the service or returned to the user such as a bonus monthly, as is the rest of the country.
-my article published in the weekly free press SiciliaOggi .
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