A solution that would upset the project, forcing to change the plans to already open construction sites, aimed not to further disturb the precarious balances of an area of the city that is revealing all its fragility. The mayor of Taormina, Cateno De Luca, has started an interlocution with Italian railway network placing a fundamental theme on the table for the future of the pearl: evaluate the elimination of the new underground station of the Giampilieri-Fiumefreddo double track line, scheduled at the entrance of the city on Via Mario and Nicolò Garipoli. A question that De Luca has already brought to the government commissioner, Filippo Palazzo, during a meeting in Palermo, also subjected to the president of the region Renato Schifani, and which will be discussed on Thursday in Rome with the Rfi leaders.
“The comparison with Palazzo focused on a very specific request-explains the mayor of Taormina-that is, the evaluation of costs and benefits of two stations in two kilometers (Alcantara-Giardini Naxos stop in the Trappitello hamlet and Taormina Centro Station) with an investment of 300-350 million euros, including the wicked provision of the Letojanni and the existing line, we oppose.
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