“Considering what has been written and declared several times by FS and RFI on the improvement of services along the Florence-Rome AV line, we strongly request that the Region take action with the service managers in order to request an increase in the number of stops offered for high-speed services along the Direttissima in the Arezzo and Chiusi hubs, starting from the next timetable change in December.”
With these words, the Democratic Party councilors Vincenzo Ceccarelli, Lucia De Robertis, Elena Rosignoli and Anna Paris presented a question to the Regional Council regarding the prospects of the AV service on the ‘Direttissima’ Rome-Florence railway line.
English: “Already during the hearing in the “Transport Commission of the Council” last February, through its representatives, the RFI company had reassured about the possibility of identifying a technical solution in the face of a possible request to switch from three to eight pairs of AV services that insist on Arezzo and Chiusi-Chianciano. In recent years, the councilors declare, important investments have also been made that have implemented and improved the technology of the AV line in this section. Since 2020, for example, the ERTMS, the most advanced system for the supervision and control of train spacing, has been activated on the Direttissima section between Rovezzano and the Arezzo Sud junction. Among other things, this same system was also started at the end of December 2022 on the Arezzo Sud junction-Orvieto Sud junction section. The same line is financed with PNRR funds for the installation of the new ERMTS L2 system which improves the performance of the line in terms of regularity, thanks to a reduction in infrastructure failures to the systems. safety and signalling. All this makes the importance of the two railway hubs of Chiusi and Arezzo even more evident for the whole of the southern region, also considering the fact that numerous intercity services have been moved and diverted to the Adriatic line. It is essential, conclude Ceccarelli De Robertis Rosignoli and Paris, to guarantee, starting from the next winter timetable, the increase in the number of AV stops in the two stations.”
