Two nights ago, at the headquarters of Cral Aosta Cogne, took a very interesting evening organized by the political movement ALPE, which supports Carlo Curtaz as mayoral candidate in municipal elections next May 23 to explain their "no" to the construction of the subway of Aosta and explain a range of alternatives for public transportation in the regional capital. I'm not here to bring the actions of the evening, for reasons of space and interest, but I refer you link to the presentation in ppt of the evening, more than ever explanatory.
Anyway, there I copy below the text I had prepared and served to prepare and make the presentation.
METRO STOP - REFERENCES AND COMPARISONS
In the study of public transport by underground Geodata, a company entrusted by the regional government, it makes extensive reference to the case of "Minimetrò in Perugia as a success. But is this true? Let's analyze some data.
The people mover Perugia develops along a single line for a total length of 4 km. Connects the western suburbs of the city with the old town, crossing the railway. It 'been thought since the early 90s, but put into operation in 2008, following 5 years of actual work. The whole project cost a total of € 98m and the daily cost of management, managing the joint venture Minimetrò SpA (70% owned by the city), of € 25,000, or € 9,125,000 per year (source : Technical and economical data on CityRailways.it). Since 2007 an investigation was initiated on how to finance the work: they are in progress, in fact, investigations by the judiciary, which assumes the use of public funds of City of Perugia, even when the costs were to be a burden on the Minimetrò SpA company (source: The Nation, group Il Sole 24 Ore, July 14, 2009), however, controlled from the same town of Perugia.
Transport data are also very worrying: are estimates of 12,000 steps a day, but the numbers were seated about 2000-3000 units less. All this despite the bus network has been reorganized to bring people to minimetrò, which have been forced exchanges. To search king to interpret these data, we try to make a quick account. Assuming that for every working day of the year there is maximum demand measured (10 thousand), we obtain a value of about 3 million passengers a year. This means that the fee that the municipality pays for a single trip on minimetrò is at least € 3.3 for only 4 km of track. Added to these are also the costs of buses, which are necessary to bring users to the system (source: lavoce.info, January 29, 2010).
Instead, simply take a subway (or people mover, if you prefer) is similar to that of Umbria?
Turin and Parma
Other significant cases, although they may dimensionally appear farther from the case of Aosta, are Turin and Parma (source for both cases: lavoce.info, January 29, 2010 and April 23, 2010).
In the case of the Piedmontese capital, after decades of discussions, it has come to a VAL metro line (the first in Italy), still in the process of enlargement, which has led to results unsatisfactory with regard to the reduction of private transport: in fact, 90,000 people of Turin to take the subway every day, but only 25,000 are those who use this public transportation instead of their car. Impact in terms of reduction of private transport? 1%, a misery.
Even more ridiculous and paradoxical in the case of Parma: After years of work, the CIPE has withdrawn funding to work meaningless. All right then? Not really, because in the meantime have already spent a lot of public money (about 26M) for planning, personnel, purchase or rental of equipment, financial advances. Still others used it for the compensation of company won the contract.
The moral is that however the government throwing public money to the wind are not punished, because the state funding already allocated, however, will come in Emilia.
But these wastes and may be nonsense, if we want, avoided at source.
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If you agree with me and consider the immense underground bullshit, v the call sign the petition proposal from the Alps. I copy you, below, the text of the petition (en français): COLORO volessero firmare che, nei commenti o lo scrivano mid inviino una mail (federico.martire @ gmail.com) e vi daro i dettagli su dove e quando firmare. Grazie a tutti!
FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY OF SURFACE
" NO" TO THE METRO FOR THE CITY OF AOSTA
PETITION PEOPLE
the Mayor and City Council of the City of Aosta
The President of the Region and the Regional Council of Aosta Valley
Citizens signatories
Took note of the feasibility study commissioned by the Regional Junta Aosta Valley to verify the feasibility of a bond buried along a north-south between the area of \u200b\u200bhospital " U. Parrini " and parking area of Aosta-Pila cableway and along the east-west road between the crossroads of Turin / Via Garibaldi and the area known " Ferrando " (place Ducler) with assumption of an extension to the airport and , west, toward the cemetery;Noticed that decision-making to achieve metropolitan transportation system has not buried , any way, involved the people concerned, therefore pushing out an incorrect method and inattentive to the needs of residents ;
found that the decision to make this work LEAD very considerable financial burden and would not meet the entire requirement of a more capillary distribution the urban transport system;
Evaluated the serious geological hazards, the unknown archaeological and the excessive proliferation of sites within the area of \u200b\u200bthe Roman walls of the city of Aosta
felt that the need for mobility for the city of Aosta, both for those who do it live and work for those who wish to visit it, may be met by investment costs and lower management and a more limited impact on urban living conditions through collective mobility systems surface;
Considered that popular participation is recognized as an optimal instrument for the protection collective interests;
CALL
• A quick predisposition on the part of an independent and trustworthy, a comparative study among the best solutions urban public transport for the city of Aosta , comparing the different alternatives and establishing a comparison between the case of the city of Aosta and other examples of public transport options and already adopted by other urban communities like in terms of size and impact;
• suspension of any decision on any links buried in metropolitan forecast a confrontation on the results of the above study.
