Trains for the Frecce tricolori in Trani, the Region comments positively on the feedback received from users

Attend a public event without the stress of looking for a parking space or getting stuck in traffic, arriving at the event location by train, a convenient, environmentally friendly and economical means of transport. The collaboration between the Puglia Region and the railway TPL companies continues to encourage the use of the train and promote forms of sustainable mobility, in particular towards those events or destinations that attract a large number of people. The latest initiative promoted was the performance of the Frecce Tricolori in Trani as part of the Air Show 2024 last Sunday. The Regional Department for Transport and Sustainable Mobility has in fact financed for that day Trenitalia’s regional offer of six extraordinary connections on the Bari-Barletta route, in addition to the ordinary offer of 28 trains in circulation on the Bari-Foggia line. POP trains with 500 seats, many of which in double composition, so as to be able to offer 1004 seats.

The feedback has been very positive. Between 11am and 5pm (the show started in the early afternoon) a total of around 5340 passengers got off at Trani station, and almost 5000 people left Trani by train after 5.30pm. Furthermore, many of the trains in circulation after 5pm, both towards Foggia and Bari, in Trani were almost completely full with a number of passengers in some cases even exceeding 1100.

“We are faced with important numbers that demonstrate that the people of Puglia and tourists have appreciated the proposal, putting aside the skepticism towards the means of collective public transport – commented the Transport councilor -. This feedback encourages us to move forward and strengthen initiatives of this type. Moreover, the summer season full of public events and demonstrations is starting in every part of our region, and the Department is already negotiating with the railway transport companies for additional extraordinary trains aimed at individual events, starting from awaited international diving competition scheduled for the end of June in Polignano a Mare, so as to make them more attractive because they are easily accessible.”