Gualtieri cancels the cableway project in Casalotti commissioned by Raggi
Yesterday, January 28, the Transport Commission established that the Casalotti cable car will not be built. We return to the People Mover hypothesis proposed by Veltroni in 2011.
The meeting of the Mobility Commission of Roma Capitale has recently been held: on the agenda, the vote in the classroom for thePUMS approval, the Urban Plan of Sustainable Mobility for the city of Rome which also includes the construction of the cableway between Casalotti and Battistini. After months of discussion and requests, however, the no by the Capitoline Councilor for Transport Eugenio Patanè: “I repeat that it is not a priority for the administration, and not only to understand the ministry for the administration, and not only because we need it but above all for the type of technology chosen – says Patanè about the Casalotti cable car – We will not give up to the mamo loan with for you can use that loan for another, for example for a people mover expected in 2011 by the Veltroni administration. “
Roberto Gualtieri against the cable car
The mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri has never made a secret of it: even before his election, in fact, the first citizen of the capital had declared that, once elected, I didn’t build the cable car for Casalotti promised by the mayor Virginia Raggi. Today, a few months after his arrival at the Capitol, he hasn’t changed his mind.
“According to the corridor financing rumors and the declarations made so far by the Roman Democratic Party, there would be the will to ensure that the project has already been approved and by the ministry of the urban cableway is not realized and to try to shift the amount allocated to other needs “, Alessandro Flavioni of the Casalotti Libera association told Fanpage.it a few days ago.
The mess on the Rome subways: everything blocked, projects for extensions stop
The extension of the subway
What Mayor Gualtieri initially suggested is, however, the extension of line A of the underground which today ends at the Battistini station. “Of this infrastructure, however, there is only the idea: the connection would concern a extension of the subway only up to Torrevecchia and would not arrive in Casalotti – Flavioni always declares – moreover the project and the financing are still missing: in practice, it could also be built in 20 or 30 years. “
In addition to the inconvenience for citizens, which would be destined to continue for much longer times than the cable car which, however, could also be built in just 5 years, there are studies in support of the cable car proposed by Raggi: “The expenses necessary to extend a ‘possible subway to the Casalotti district, however, not sustainable because there is no minimum user to justify this expense. Added to this is also the geological evaluation of the subsoil: in the area that connects Torrevecchia to Casalotti there are too many caves and cavities that could create difficulties. “
There is a third alternative, but space is lacking
To these options, however, a third one has often been added which, however, is unachievable right from the start: “The alternative, that is to create a surface line with dedicated or value-added transport lanes, is not feasible because there is no space on via Bocceaalready today with two lanes and surrounded by shops – Flavioni himself explained to Fanpage.it – The same ministry has evaluated the urban cableway technically, effectively and economically as the only possible solution: the project has already been fully completed and this stance is clearly political and instrumental for us. “
The return to the people mover proposed by Veltroni
During the Mobility Commission of Rome Capital which was held yesterday, however, the commissioner Eugenio Patanè proposed, in place of the cable car wanted by the former mayor Virginia Raggi, the return to people moverAlso known as automated people mover, APM, often used in connections between airport terminals, in hospitals or on the subway. The common will is, in fact, not to lose the funds that have been obtained for the construction of the cable car, but to move them for another project. “We will bring home that financing but maybe with a new technology. Assuming that that area must be served “in fact, Patanè specified during the Commission.
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