“But we need this Tiber river or do we not need it?”… Remember? Thus, with this cult phrase in Roman dialect, Armando Feroci, played by a magnificent Carlo Verdone, closed the very film “Gallo Cedrone”. Well, contextualising everything in Crema, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Tortello, net of the underpass (Ok Juventus will arrive before the Champions League, but what a soap opera, right?) we could readapt Feroci’s slang, shouting: “But is this station, restored, but always vandalised, with trains suspended, stopped, often late and the level crossing on the avenue of Santa Maria della Croce, lowered rather than raised, do we need it or not?” In this regard, a Facebook post, dated May 15, by the architect is emblematic Enzo BettinelliLord of Crema Politics: “Another morning of passion on Viale di S. Maria… at the station there is a train waiting for Cremona. The train from Cremona to Milan arrives on the opposite track. He leaves and goes away. The other train, undaunted, remains stopped at the station. And the level crossing bars are down… I think on one side the queue of vehicles arrives at Soncino, on the other probably beyond Pianengo. And what do the controllers do with their cameras? Do they play cards? How do you leave a city cut in two? If the stopped train has problems, someone will have known about it (we are in the era of telecommunications and video surveillance!) and doesn’t it occur to that genie that in the meantime the level crossing can be raised?“
For heaven’s sake, with the underpass arriving, hopefully soon, in via Gaeta, circulation will probably become more fluid, but will traffic decrease in those parts? But above all, without modern, efficient, functional, numerous and punctual trains towards Milan and Cremona, will the station benefit or harm the Grand Duchy of Tortello?
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