The Castel Fusano station of the Rome-Ostia line is closed until 31 March. Thousands of citizens in revolt
Neighborhood committees, associations and thousands of citizens in revolt towards the closure of the Castel Fusano train station in Rome – Host, deemed excessive and communicated only 5 days before. «In the meeting last 8 September with the Commuter Committees of the Roma Lido and Roma Nord regional railways, the top management of Astral (which manages the entire regional road and railway network on behalf of the Lazio Region, editor’s note) – said Roberto Spigai, member of the director of the Rome Ostia Commuter Committee – they had assured us that there would be no interruption of travellers’ access to the station during the works, this was not the case and was given with a sudden communication, moreover only after many requests from us ». The works would concern the restoration of the pedestrian underpass, the electrical system, the bathrooms, the rehabilitation of the atrium as well as the cleaning of the facades and the metal furnishings and the restructuring of the canopies on the platforms, nothing concerning the railway line and the platforms, therefore the train continues to pass.
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“We are against the closure because the works are only on the building and not on the railway line and it would bring enormous inconvenience to tens of thousands of passengers – continues Spigai – not to mention those with reduced mobility, who have walking problems or travel with trolleys, strollers following, an inconvenience that could and can still be avoided, not only for residents in the areas of Castel Fusano, Borghetto Pescatori but also for athletes or spectators who will participate in the events of the federal Olympic center FiJLKAM and PalaPellicone, for students and teachers of the Polo di Ostia of the Department of the Faculty of civil engineering, information technology and aeronautical technologies of the Roma Tre University, in short, a senseless closure that does not take into account what it is bringing, we ask Atac and Astral, the institutions, the town hall, the Campidoglio and the Region to intervene urgently by allowing the opening of the driveway located outside, along the perimeter wall, adjacent to the entrance to the Federal Olympic Center FiJLKAM and the PalaPellicone to allow access to the two platforms for the period of construction work and always, at least, to the one towards Rome PSP on the days when the underpass is actually undergoing construction site». Inconveniences that are added to all those of other plants on the line: 20 are blocked out of the 30 existing between Cristoforo Colombo and Vitinia, not accessible due to lift blockages (on average for 2 years), in practice in all the first five stations of Ostia up to Lido Nord with Bernocchi, Vitinia and Beirut-TdV. All the escalators in Lido Nord and Acilia are out of order. In Magliana the stairway of track 4 on the south side of the bridge and that for bins 2 and 3 from the north side bridge are blocked. For three years, 2 uphill escalators have also stopped at Piramide (tunnel side for Ostiense). Also a stairway between Roma Lido and Metro B towards Termini, and for months one at platform 4 of the Basilica San Paolo, while the pedestrian tunnel between Metro B Piramide Roma Lido and Ostiense has been closed for 34 months. In short, problems and inconveniences created for the citizens who move every day and which, in addition to the Roma Lido, extend to the entire metro B, not to mention the non-functioning elevators and stairs of metro A, as described in the latest monitoring of the metro stations published in the report by Acos (agency for the control and quality of local public services in Rome, ed.) in December.