The single city? «It risks becoming a topic of mass distraction compared to other and much more urgent strategic issues for the entire urban area and the province».
This is stated by Massimiliano De Rose, who has been on the city council for years and has also been a candidate for the position of mayor in previous elections. De Rose takes up the problem, which occurred at the end of July, of the interruption of railway connections which – in his opinion – proves, «the indispensability of high speed for the province of Cosenza (median and Ionian area and urban area)».
Could this be the occasion to reopen a debate on the matter? De Rose is cautious: «Calabria is increasingly distant and the province of Cosenza almost unreachable», explains De Rose. «We hope that the umpteenth “mess” of the railway isolation of those days does not completely dash the hopes of those who have chosen Calabria as a holiday destination and not just where to return for the holidays.
The 4-day interruption of the railway line connecting it to the rest of Italy has, in effect, isolated the entire region at a time when there is a greater influx of tourists and the return of many Calabrians living elsewhere”, says the lawyer. For him, the situation is even “more serious in the province of Cosenza, the largest and most populous in the region”.
De Rose in fact says that «there are no airports in the Cosenza area, nor are there efficient connections with the one in Lamezia for the major centers and the most attractive tourist locations». And there are not even «ports that guarantee maritime connections with any other landing place. In essence: you don’t leave or arrive anywhere».
