Here is the text of the open letter that the Vice Presidente del Consiglio Provinciale
Sebastiano Failla ha inviato al Ministro delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti Sen. Altero
Matteoli per denunciare l'ennesimo abuso ai danni del nostro territorio da parte dei
vertici di TrenItalia :
Al Ministro
dei Trasporti e delle Infrastrutture
Sen. Altero Matteoli
Ragusa lì 29/03/2010
Oggetto: Situazione del Trasporto Ferroviario in Provincia di Ragusa.
Ill.mo Sig. Ministro,
questa mia lettera aperta, che mi permetto di inviare agli Organi di Stampa, ha per
oggetto la triste e incancrenita condizione del trasporto ferroviario nella provincia più
meridionale della Nazione.
Inopinatamente, con una decisione inopportuna e devastante, i vertici regionali di
TrenItalia hanno soppresso le corse del fine settimana in tutta l'area del Sud-Est della
Sicilia che comprende in toto la provincia di Ragusa.
E', questa decisione, l'ennesimo atto concreto che porta allo smantellamento della tratta
ferroviaria in provincia di Ragusa.
At
verbal assurances by the institutional representatives of TreniItalia
our territory, about a publicized desire to upgrade the route, follow
unabated acts that go in the opposite direction, towards the ultimate disposal of the network
station in our area.
adds insult to injury given that, there are no substitutes ran away
bus and saw that the train-km will be saved to increase the traffic on the route
Messina-Catania.
Mr. Minister, Italy does not end in Catania and That's why we hope in His
authoritative and decisive action to roll back the decision and
to stimulate the railways to provide a serious plan to relaunch the line
in our province, built by Mussolini in the '30s of the century last year and never
modernized.
Your sensitivity will certainly understand that this land can not be
yet another robbery in which impoverishes the infrastructural perspective minimum
our disposal, since it was the province of Ragusa 's the only province of
nation not to have even an inch of highway.
vibrant economy of our province and laborious shown by ISTAT
on the production of GDP, the unemployment rate and the relation of birth-death
VAT numbers, does not deserve this latest humiliation.
Our people have used for centuries to withstand abuse and muggings that
conquerors, the most diverse, have always been perpetrated against us.
We are used to working people, even in the third world, but it's really dramatic
understand to be the last province of the Empire.
confident in his overall vision of a modern nation that offers the only viable alternative transport
possible in our country whose goods and products
travel almost exclusively on wheeled transport.
Ill.mo Mr. Minister I play to collect the complaint on behalf of an entire province and
intervene decisively in favor of this population and territory of this
defending the poor infrastructure already available.
Deputy
of the Province of Ragusa