“This morning we monitored the situation on the Circumflegrea line mentioned in yesterday's scandalous video with our officials on board the train, in the critical commuter time slot from 7 to 9. Well, the influx is substantially the same as yesterday. Sustained. But there is no dramatic situation. As demonstrated by the videos filmed at the Montesanto station when the trains arrived this morning. Just film the video from a different perspective, not from above and far away, but linear and close up, and you can see that there are a lot of people, of course, but the situation is absolutely under control”. This was stated by the president of Eav, Umberto De Gregorio, after the controversy over overcrowding yesterday on a train in the Naples area. “The trains – he added – were all in regular conditions, from a “health” point of view, in the sense that the theoretical capacity expected, equal to a quarter of the potential, was respected for each composition. 100 people maximum out of 400 theoretical that the train can carry. The distancing between people inside the trains and when passengers get off is an impossible control to do. Yesterday the turnout was high, about 34 thousand people on the railway lines and 4800 on the road. We went from 10 percent of the past few days when there was a total lockdown to about 24 percent of the passengers we transport on average on weekdays (about 141 thousand)”. According to De Gregorio “the question remains of understanding what happens after May 18 when all commercial activities will reopen.
If the offer must be limited to 25% of the potential one, there will be serious problems. The EAV Phlegraean and Vesuvian lines connect popular neighborhoods with the city center. Commuters are mostly workers. How can we refuse to carry thousands of people on trains? The offer is limited to the actual availability of trains and buses. We will ask for help from the mayors and the police, as is already happening these days in Licola. Tomorrow - he announces - a meeting is scheduled in the Region at 12 with the president of the transport commission Luca Cascone and all the mayors".
Article published on May 5, 2020 - 13:03 pm
