Mazzini car park, Buchignani after the controversy: “Metro was making a loss. Soon new stalls outside the walls”

Mazzini parking, protests continue against Metro’s choice to leave season tickets only to residents and not to shopkeepers and workers. The municipal administration, pressed by the councilors’ recommendations in the city council Daniele Bianucci (Left With) e Francesco Raspini (Pd), replied through the intervention of the councilor Nicola Buchignani.

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“The changes to Mazzini are caused byhigh management cost and the extraordinary maintenance of the parking lot – says Buchignani -. Soon Mazzini will be the protagonist of important jobs, which hadn’t been done for 20 years, and the parking lot will become practically new. For ten years at Mazzini it has been raining inside, yes there are stalactites of acidic stuff that even dissolve reinforced concrete. These are very expensive jobs: car parks are built to provide a service, but not to make a loss. To date Metro was making a loss with that car park. The Mazzini had become a sort of private garage: a good public administration cannot invest public money in a car park and then give it away for 20 euros a month. I would like to point out that the workers of the historic center have been absolutely safeguarded and will be even more so: Metro – and we will approve the document on Thursday at the council – will provide them with additional parking spaces by making a new parking immediately outside the Walls, where further subscriptions can be made. However, there is no shortage of places for workers in the historic center: the Carducci has season tickets at a cost of 20 euros, the station car park at 20 euros, the Palatucci at 10 euros. In Viale Pacini, 100 meters away from the Mazzini car park, there are season tickets that cost 170 per year, therefore less than 15 euros per month. They are car parks immediately outside the city walls. Workers must be protected and not a single euro has been increased.”

An answer that does not satisfy the leader of the Democratic Party Francesco Raspini: “When these changes are made they must be communicated in time, in order to give people time to find alternatives. Does parking have to break even? No, it’s the Metro company that needs to break even. The Metro is anything but in deficit.”