work starts, trains in fits and starts

ANCONA «We recommend that you re-evaluate your trip planning». That is, let everyone save themselves. The dispassionate advice comes directly from Trenitalia and concerns the works on the Orte-Falconara line which will start next Friday 3 May and end on the following 8 June. That is, 35 days of stoppage on the Terni-Foligno stretch, with foreseeable and significant inconveniences for all travellers. Starting from those who use regional trains every day for work or study. Right between Terni and Foligno, the railway connection will be replaced by buses.

The alternative

Which may have “lesser seats than the normal service offered”, in addition, of course, to travel times which will increase “also in relation to road traffic”. There may also be timetable changes for the Ancona-Rome and Perugia-Rome regional trains, in particular in the Ancona-Foligno, Perugia-Foligno and Terni-Rome sections. Let’s go up a category and move on to InterCity trains. Goodbye to the Milan-Terni trains on the Foligno-Terni stretch, with travelers having to fall back on the usual buses. The Rome-Ancona trains will be diverted via Orte-Terontola with «remodulated timetables and suppression of the Terni and Spoleto stops». The alternative? Buses again. The Terni-Perugia Ponte San Giovanni route has also been canceled for the Rome-Perugia route. The Rome-San Candido Night Intercity on 7 June will stop in Orvieto instead of Terni, routed via Orte-Florence-Bologna with rescheduled timetables. Finally we arrive at high speed trains – which aren’t even “high speed” in normal conditions. Trenitalia writes that «the two Frecciargento trains on the Rome-Falconara Marittima-Rimini-Ravenna route will be canceled in the direction of Ravenna from 3 May to 7 June and in the direction of Rome from 4 May to 8 June». There are very few alternatives left for all those workers or students who travel to Rome every day. And that perhaps they will regret, at least for this month, the already extended times of normal circulation. Moreover, there are no alternatives to the replacement bus connections. No, that’s not hyperbole. Once the car is removed, only the plane remains. The Falconara-Rome flight, operated in territorial continuity by the Bolzano-based Sky Alps, which recently took over from the rebellious AeroItalia. Too bad it takes 48 hours there and back. Leaving from Ancona with the only flight of the day, scheduled for 3.30pm, we would still arrive in Rome much later than 2.15pm, when the only daily connection from the capital to Dorica is scheduled to take off. All for a total cost of around 160 euros.

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