“No to adoptions, yes to the call for maintenance”
No to “ad personam” adoptions, yes to a notice for maintenance management, on the model of what has been done for the Christmas markets. These are the conditions that Confesercenti Toscana Nord, with its Pisa area manager Simone Romoli, reiterates on the question of the maintenance of the ‘Dante Alighieri’, the locomotive supplied to the Pisan steam tramways which for years was in service on the tracks of the Pisa- Pontedera first and then Pisa-Boccadarno, located in Piazza Baleari from summer 2021.
The association’s note responds to Confcommercio, which fin since February 2022 he has asked to adopt the monument. “We reiterate our position, the same as a year ago – says Romoli – when the first major problem of deterioration due to rust emerged, the same as in recent days after the chimney fell. The locomotive needs constant maintenance, at least two times a year given the obvious consequences of its constant exposure to southwest wind and storm surges. precise stakes on the methods of intervention. Spot adoptions are not needed, considering that the proposers do not appear to have know-how in the field of locomotive maintenance”.
According to Romoli “the tender could not only deal with maintenance, which is currently the absolute priority, but also one tourist enhancement or perhaps the involvement of schools to tell what the old trammino was and the social value it had for many Pisans. We are still awaiting a response from the municipal administration from which everything is silent at the moment, not only on the announcement but also on the arrangement of the chimney and at this point of a new check up of the vehicle”.