“The financial picture of national public transport is worrying. It exists an imbalance of 1.7 billionalso due to inflation, which not only alarms the entire sector but risks not achieving the objective indicated by the Pniec, the Integrated national plan for energy and climatewhich indicates a modal shift, from private to collective mobility, of 10%”. So the associations representing public and private companies in the sector on the occasion of a conference organized in Milan at Nmethe international fair dedicated to public transport.
“The analyzes of experts – the associations report, commenting on a study by the Polytechnic of Milan – confirm a dangerous financial imbalance, due both to annual shortage of the National LPT Financing Fundthis is almost 800 million euros, both for the resources that would be used to cover the future costs of renewing the sector’s national collective bargaining agreement, which expired in 2023, and which the trade unions have quantified at around 900 million additional euros when fully operational”.
The industrial public transport system, conclude the business associations, “cannot survive without a review of the framework of functional resources. risk is an increasing reduction in supply which will discourage the demand for public mobility, thus distancing the country from the objectives of environmental sustainability and economic growth”.
