At Milan Centrale, delays of up to 170 minutes and hours. Trenitalia: ‘Avoid travel’. Railway traffic suspended – News
A fault in the airline is creating traffic problems, with severe delays and cancellations of trains, and related inconvenience to passengers, in the Milan railway hub. According to what Polfer reported, the technical investigations also concern an unspecified person damage to the airline which would have been caused by “a train leaving this morning in Milan, shortly after 7”.
Railway traffic suspended on the Milan-Genoa, Milan-Venice and Milan-Bologna lines. Trains experience delays and cancellations. Traffic is regular on the Milan-Turin line. The intervention of RFI technicians is underway. Information on circulation on the websites of RFI and railway companies.
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There are twelve high-speed trains in the queueout of the 15 late ones, and 4 canceled ones, announced at 9 am on the departures board in the Central station, in Milan. Delays range from 10 to 160 minutes “but they are destined to increase” explains an employee at a ticket office with a long queue. Repercussions on various national lines.
“It is advisable to avoid or limit travel by train to those strictly necessary and to reschedule trips that can be postponed”. This is the invitation that can be read on the Trenitalia website after the suspension of train traffic in the Central Station in Milan from this morning at 7.50 on the lines to Genoa, Venice and Bologna due to “technical checks – said Trenitalia, on the power line”.
Trains with delays of up to 140 minutes at Rome’s Termini station for the “power line failure” that occurred at the Milan hub. Many passengers waiting at the station. At the moment there are no critical issues.
Serious repercussions on the Bologna stationwhere the trains, especially the high-speed ones coming from the north, are accumulating very heavy loads delays, up to 170 minutes. Many travelers are waiting for information while waiting to understand the fate of their train.
Delays, limitations and cancellations of high-speed trains to and from Milan are recorded at the Venice Santa Lucia station. The ‘Frecce’ trains to Milan were stopped at Verona Porta Nuova or Brescia, from here passengers were directed to other trains headed for Turin and which stopped at Porta Garibaldi. Some trains make an extraordinary stop in Desenzano del Garda. The 9.45 and 11.45 Milan-Venice trains originated and originate from Brescia station.
In the Milan hub there is rail circulation gradually recovering for connections to and from Venice and Genoa. Technical checks on the electricity line for connections to and from Bologna are still underway.
Codacons: ‘To all passengers involved refunds and bonuses but also compensation for the inconvenience suffered’
“Railway companies must take action to give all passengers involved in today’s chaos not only reimbursements and bonuses provided for by the current legislation, but also compensation proportionate to the inconvenience suffered”: Codacons writes this, intervening on the fault which caused a series of delays and cancellations to connections. “It is very important in this situation not only to work to minimize the inconvenience and restore the service as soon as possible, but also to fully recognize the rights of consumers and the damage suffered by them” concludes Codacons.
Renzi, trains delayed by an hour Salvini has returned to the ministry full time
“The trains from Milan are blocked due to a fault and are more than an hour late. We can see that Salvini has returned to the Ministry full time. Our meeting today, then, starts at 12 and not at 11”. The founder of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi, who is expected in Florence, wrote it in X. Nine are of the High Speed type. Eight canceled arrivals, four canceled departures.
Bonelli, more train chaos. Salvini a disaster for Italy
“Even today there is chaos and inconvenience with trains. With this government, cancellations and delays are now the order of the day. While Minister Salvini is busy with the construction of the Bridge over the Strait, which will cost Italians 14 billion in public funds, transport in this country it is literally collapsing. All this while the National Fund for Rapid Mass Transport has been wiped out. Prime Minister Meloni should seriously think about resigning Salvini, the worst transport minister ever. Thus in a note Angelo Bonelli, Co-Spokesman of Green Europe and AVS MP.
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