The Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor's Office has entered the train conductor and the driver of the Circumvesuviana train that derailed yesterday evening in the Torre Annunziata tunnel in the register of suspects. Pozzano a Castellammare along the line Sorrento-Napoli.
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The president of the Autonomous Volturno Authority himself confirms this, Umberto De Gregorio, who also underlines how he himself is "in his capacity as president of theEav injured party”.
"The last two accidents that occurred on the Vesuvian line, beyond the human errors that caused them, have a remote cause: the safety signalling system dates back to about 50 years ago."
Eav: “The security system is 50 years old”
This is what the Ente Autonomo Volturno, the transport company that manages the Vesuvian lines, writes in a note. ”With the funds of the PNRR – continue from Eav – we finally signed a 30 million contract on December 2022, 290 with the multinational Alstom (and the designers are already at work), to replace the existing system on all lines with a new latest-generation Ertms signaling system like the one in force on the most advanced Rfi lines. A system that greatly reduces possible human errors.
“Even the trains that run are dated”
The concept of safety evolves over time”. Focus also on the fleet of vehicles available: ”Even the trains that are running are dated – they admit from Eav – We have sixty of them and many are 60 years old. They have to retire. Thanks to the ability of our technicians, they continue to do their part.
A hundred new trains are needed to provide a good service: Stadler is already building forty of them. A new tender worth 483 million is being published for the other sixty”.
"In the meantime - concludes the note released by the company - we have activated a consultancy with the Cifi (Italian College of Railway Engineers) led by the former CEO of Rfl, engineer Gentile, with top experts in the sector, for a supervision of our current circulation system and to welcome any suggestions or course corrections on the actions implemented for the future".
The Honorable Patriarca: “The management must go”
“The latest Circum accident on the Naples-Sorrento route is a humiliation that the company and its workers do not deserve. And that travellers especially do not deserve. A very serious and inexcusable episode that now shows that the management has definitively lost operational and managerial control of the infrastructure”.
To say it is Annarita Patriarca, Forza Italia member of the Chamber of Deputies. “And it is not enough that the management itself absolves itself by claiming to have restored the accounts. Financial sustainability is, in fact, only one aspect of the work of a public manager (and we should then delve deeper into this accounting restructuring as to how much of a success it is if achieved in almost eight years and with very important government remittances that have in fact automatically eliminated the debts).
Eav offers or should offer, first and foremost, an efficient and reliable public service which, in this specific case, has been completely neglected and sacrificed, ending up incredibly taking a back seat to presumed corporate successes of another nature.
Furthermore, it must be added that when, within a few months, accidents occur that compromise the safety of travellers, then we must acknowledge that we are faced with an unjustifiable and no longer sustainable management of the company”.
“The EAV now represents a criticality rather than a resource for the territories – the Patriarch concluded -. At this point, it is necessary to imagine a change at the top of management that restores serenity to the company and that, above all, offers commuters and tourists transport that is finally up to par”.
Article published on 27 January 2023 - 21:55
