Here are the new anti Covid rules on public transport
The new transport guidelines sent by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility to the Cts
The controllers will return to public transport, not only to verify possession of the ticket but also the correct use of masks and compliance with the distancing rules imposed by Covid.
This is foreseen by the new guidelines on transport sent by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility to the CTS (Technical Scientific Committee) of the Health Department.
"A crucial issue will be that of controls – explained Minister Enrico Giovannini, guest of Rainews24 – in these guidelines the figure of the controller who had been suspended for health reasons in recent months is restored: this control can take place on vehicles or on the ground in in such a way as to reduce crowding ".
In particular, the minister stressed the importance of communication to citizens and recalled that "the green pass will be mandatory for trains, airplanes and long-distance ships from 1 September", as required by the decree passed by the government at the beginning of August.
Giovannini also announced that on Thursday morning he will meet the presidents of the regions to define plans for local public transport in view of the resumption of schools and activities in September. “Yesterday the deadline for sending the plans of the regions to the ministry was set, we will meet with the presidents of the regions on Thursday morning to make our observations”, said the minister, underlining that “the Government has deployed unprecedented resources. For the second half of the year – he explained – there are over 600 million euros for the additional services that the Regions must deploy on the basis of the prefectural tables, i.e. the places where planning is done province by province and 800 million for compensate for losses and higher costs for sanitation ".
Another hot topic is the extension of the obligation of the green pass to all categories of workers in contact with the public, including bus drivers. "The discussion is underway", said the minister recalling the statements of the Minister for Regional Affairs, Mariastella Gelmini, who opened the possibility of extending the use of the green certificate. For Giovannini it is a “complex issue, linked to the evolution of the vaccination campaign. The more we accelerate the vaccination campaign – he observed – the more we secure the whole country. Operators who are in contact with the public should be the first to be even more protected ”. Giovannini finally recommended the use of the Ffp2 mask "which can be used at the discretion of individuals but which protects in crowded places".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/ecco-le-nuove-regole-anti-covid-sui-trasporti-pubblici/ on Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:42:43 +0000.