This is how Caltagirone rules Rome

How important is Caltagirone in Rome? A couple of examples. Riccardo Pennisi's opinion taken from his Facebook profile

Are you saying why there is such inadequate public transport in Rome? One of the answers is that such a crucial policy is neglected by the Italian State, which for a thousand reasons has not considered it a priority in recent decades, and has therefore delegated it to the municipalities. And if everything depends on the municipalities, it is easy for small and large local potentates to exercise veto powers.

Especially where a democratic culture of public space is scarce – as in Rome, where the street, like many other areas, is abandoned to the law of the strongest. A stupid and expensive law, but since "the strongest" has the upper hand, he uses the veto to maintain his privilege. This was seen last year with an insistent campaign by Messaggero which managed to scuttle the work planned for the tram on Via Nazionale, because it would have disturbed its owner's hotels, located there, and the fact that suppliers, renters and vehicles of available service continue to use that road as their own backyard. ((The Municipality promises that those works are only postponed until after the Jubilee. We'll see if it's true.))

Meanwhile, we could enjoy more trams under construction, which would improve our city and make its scattered services much more accessible. Like the Termini-Tor Vergata line. Yes, we have a university built in the 1980s in an area completely disconnected from public transport. Tens of thousands of people forced to go there by car every day. One of the reasons why there is absurd traffic in Rome. He says why did you do it over there? Eh, why, guess [whose] land was it where it was built? And the company [whose] has a practically eternal concession and without budget limits for all the works in that immense area? Yes, Caltxxxrone . I cover for modesty. Even if you don't read it in the Messaggero .

Now strangely the University of Tor Vergata opposes the new tram. His negative opinion could cause Rome to lose 200 million euros and a great work that we need like hotcakes. For once a good public transport project leaves the consolidated city to reach the millions of Romans who live around the Raccordo. A large university, a large hospital, many neighborhoods detached and torn apart from each other, which would be sewn back to the city to which they belong.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/caltagirone-messaggero-tram-via-nazionale-roma/ on Sun, 08 Dec 2024 05:14:30 +0000.