“Losing the station is irreparable damage.” To say it is the circle of the PD of Taormina, which intervenes after the request from the municipal administration to the Italian railway network To eliminate the Taormina underground station from the railway doubling projectexpected on the Via Mario and Nicolò Garipoli. “Nobody will stop the construction site nor will the track of the gallery be moved which is already under construction, with the moles in action – begins the party led by Filippo Patanè -. If the problem lies in the boulder resting on the ridge of the hill, the question is old stuff, underestimated by an administration that creates the case to play up with RFI and the authorities. The consolidation of the side will be done, at the expense of RFI, and this intervention will be performed anyway, because it will have to protect the gallery. And consequently the works will also protect the station, all at zero cost for Taormina. If someone thinks that the point is wrong, it indicates another – says the PD -. Given the geography of the places, the only point of the route where it is possible to place a station is that. Unless someone proposes not to expand the tunnel under the historic center and plant a vertical lift with direct landing on the Umberto course: everything is possible! ». For the Taorminese dem, proposing to suppress the station is simply unlikely: «Only we have this more march, but backwards: we would be the only ones in the world who intend to refuse that this city, which lives of tourism only, has a direct connection with the Fontanarossa airport in 40 minutes. Those of RFI will still be shocked! ».
The new Taormina Centro station also includes parking and the Democratic Party wonders why, rather than throwing the convention with RFI in the air, it has not been decided to make sure to manage it, instead of proposing new concrete flows in the city center with contracts for new ASM parking lots: “If there is a beautiful and ready parking made by RFI, isn’t the one to guarantee money for the maintenance of the station? The cost to keep it amounts to 20 million a year? More than the Catania airport? Is the problem the supervision? All franc ». For the Democratic Party, those of the Administration are head shots born from the inability to understand that the Trappitello station It is not the second of Taormina, but that of the entire Alcantara Valley and Giardini, and reaching it would be an adventure, given that it is unthinkable to line up on the Via Francavilla and on the state road 114. The Democratic Party of Taormina finally comments on the story of the tunnel between Mazzeo and Letojanni to connect the new line to the historical track: “Eliminating it, every tourist potential of Letojanni. The only valid objection is the “environmental” of associations and committees. To this must be paid very attention and it is there that you must negotiate and contribute, to obtain the corrections and the best possible project with the lowest environmental impact from RFI ».
