Frecciarossa between Rome and Florence stopped for 2 hours under the sun: 50 degrees inside and sickness. Government: «Too many inconveniences, top management reports»

Delays of up to 120 minutes, suffocating heat in some carriages due to the malfunctioning of the air conditioning, elderly people and a pregnant woman put to the test. Neither water nor supports for passengers. The slowdown in rail traffic on the Rome-Florence high-speed line is creating huge inconveniences. between Settebagni and Capena, in Lazio. «The cause is a technical problem with a train» they explain from Trenitalia. Thus convoy 9422 departing from Rome at 1.35pm and heading to Venice, via Florence, became an unlivable furnace: a nightmare for travellers, so many of them ahead of the weekend. Also on board was the former Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini: “Really a bad experience.”

From Saturday 22 June to 29 July you will work at night

On that route, a fundamental hub for the country, work is about to begin at night: will be held from Saturday 22 June until 29 July, to allow the infrastructural expansion planned by RFI. Railway traffic will undergo changes: the technical failure on the eve of the day does not help what was supposed to be the last phases of starting the construction sites, which will have an impact on the Frecciarossa and Frecciargento lines of Venice–Rome/Naples, Turin/Milan–Rome, Naples–Florence , Milan-Reggio Calabria, Genoa–Rome. The InterCity train 1579 of the Prato Centrale–Roma Termini line and the InterCity Night trains Rome–San Candido, Rome–Trieste and Salerno–Turin timetable changes will be made. The Milan-Syracuse night InterCity trains, and vice versa, will undergo route changes with the cancellation of the Florence Campo di Marte stop and partial timetable changes. Some Trenitalia regional trains on the Florence/Chiusi–Rome, Ancona–Rome and Rome–Terni lines will also undergo changes in both timetable and route. Late in the evening, on the line affected by the technical fault, lcirculation gradually returned to normal.

Francesca Ghirra (Avs): «Salvini apologizes»

Francesca Ghirra, group leader of the Green and Left Alliance in the Chamber’s Transport commission, he thunders: «The malfunctioning of the railway network is a real national scandal. Every day a breakdown. Even today, a Frecciarossa departing from Rome and heading to Venice remained stationary for two hours under the sun at the gates of the capital: 50 degrees on board, passengers hostages of a railway transport left to its own devices. The minister Where is Salvini? To admire the model of the bridge? At least apologize.”

«The railway disruptions reported even in the last few hours are a cause for concern embarrassment and irritation on the part of the MIT» replied the leader of the League through a note from the ministry. «Matteo Salvini – we read further – is determined to convene the top management of FS, Trenitalia and RFI: despite the awareness of some objective difficulties (starting from the high number of open construction sites) it is necessary to guarantee a service that is as efficient and respectful as possible of citizens”.

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