Bus routes are skipped, angry users and hours of waiting to be able to travel by public transport. It is the scenario of public transport in Abruzzo outlined by Giuseppe Lupo, regional secretary of Ugl Autoferro, who points the finger at the Tua company: “It is no longer adrift – he thunders – but it is a sinking ship”.
For some time, according to what Lupo reported, throughout the region the vehicles have not followed the established timetables, especially in the area between Chieti and Pescara.
“The drivers are verbally attacked as if they were the cause of the evils – accuses Lupo – but this is not the case, because behind it there is an incapable, mediocre management, careless of those who contribute to their generous salaries. Yours is a regional public company , which lives on contributions from the Abruzzo Region and supported by taxpayers’ money, and what do they do to reciprocate such generosity, Tua leaves them stranded, offering them a service that, if we said poor, would be a compliment”.
“The users, we are told, have been invited several times, by the poor unfortunate operators, to write to the company about the inefficiencies that occur daily – continues the regional secretary Ugl Autoferro – but they reply that it is useless, because they already have it done, and none of them have ever been worthy of an answer. They should offer a social service from every point of view, but here we are faced with total indifference and abandonment towards students, commuters, workers, the elderly Tua of the last few years had already affected the workers, but it was not at all foreseeable that it would now converge towards the users. Where is the Abruzzo Region? property, in the interest above all of workers and citizens”, concludes Lupo.
