(Finance) – The press conference to present the Public Debate on the project to strengthen the line Pescara – Chieti. After institutional greetings from Pierluigi Biondi, Mayor of L’Aquila, the press conference was attended by the President of the Abruzzo Region, Marco Marsilio; the Member of the National Public Debate Commission (CNDP) and Rapporteur for the Project, Andreina Scognamiglio; the CEO of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana – RFI (FS Group), Gianpiero Strisciuglio; the Deputy General Director Operations of RFI, Vincenzo Macello; the Coordinator of the Public Debate, Roberto Zucchetti.
The Public Debate aims to inform and illustrate the program of the doubling of the Pescara-Chieti-Interporto d’Abruzzo section, aimed at making the railway system on the Rome-Pescara director compared to other modes of transport, as well as guaranteeing better performance levels of the offer in terms of travel times and capacity. At the same time, passenger services will benefit from the work, but also freight relations to and from the Abruzzo Interport.
The DP Pescara Chieti website (potenziamentopescarachieti.it) will provide complete and timely information on the infrastructure project and on the progress of the Public Debate; The Public Debate meetings will start from Thursday 2 May, to carefully examine together with citizens and interested parties the potential of the project and its impacts on the territory
For Marco Marsilio, President of the Abruzzo Region: “Today is a step forward and a very important signal for the development of the territory. Now we get to the heart of the debate with a calendar that is presented to define the part of the project that concerns the section from Pescara to Chieti, another fundamental passage that has been blocked for decades due to an ancient dispute over the crossing of Sambuceto. We are moving forward on a railway that is fundamental, it is a backbone of our Region’s connections to the Capital”.
The Professor Roberto ZucchettiCoordinator of the Public Debate and Senior Advisor of PTS, declared: “The public debate does not decide what to do: it serves to bring out all the criticisms and proposals for improvement of the project so that whoever then has to decide can do so with the maximum possible information. For this reason I invite everyone to contribute by informing themselves, sending comments and contributions and participating in public meetings. It is a very important project, which will quickly and sustainably unite the center of Italy its implementation creates economic activities for many people: these difficulties must urge us to do a good job together, to find solutions that reduce and, where this is not possible, adequately compensate those who are damaged”.
For Gianpiero I squeak, RFI CEO: “We are starting the Public Debate phase on this work because we believe in the discussion with the stakeholders, which started about two years ago, with the Region and with the municipalities of Abruzzo. The speeding up of the Rome-Pescara line allows the right to mobility of internal areas, of territories far from the large urban nodes, a greater travel capacity for commuters towards Rome and towards Pescara, to animate tourism to discover places crossed by the railway”.
Among others, he took part in the event Andreina ScognamiglioMember of the National Public Debate Commission (CNDP) and Rapporteur for the Project.