Phase 2, as will be done with commuters

(John Blackeye) In these busy hours to organize Phase 2 of a pandemic that has no phases, the Government is committed to finding staggered opening solutions for factories, shops, businesses, construction sites and so on.

The hope of the population is that the Government is aware that all these productive or commercial activities are animated by men and women who work within them and are not only the source of profit for many owners and shareholders who continue to live peacefully in their respective oases. happy.

Most workers in the industrial and commercial sectors travel in the morning to get to their workplace and do so by taking trains and public transportation.

A few days before the first decree of the President of the Council of Ministers regarding restrictions was issued, before we were all left at home, the scenes of ordinary madness, always ignored by the institutions, were those reported by a commuter, witness and daily victim of the overcrowding of trains that he wrote to the President of the Council of Ministers: “Even today we arrived in one of the many railway stations of the Rome-Cassino line. We are waiting for the 7530 train that should take us to Rome. We are commuters. We go to Rome to work. And to be in Rome at eight in the morning, we are at the station at 5. Yes, it may not seem true but we got up some at four, some at five in the morning.

It's all dark outside. It's cold. The platforms of the stations slowly fill up with tired commuters. It is not easy to get up at four in the morning for a lifetime, but this is a problem that is not part of the Reforms feared by dozens of Governments and perhaps will never be understood at high levels.

However, despite everything, despite the tiredness, almost at night we are on the platforms of those tracks waiting for the 7530 train which leaves from Cassino for Rome. Rain, cold, snow and wind are our only certainties.

There are many commuters, the 7530 train left Cassino and begins its Via Crucis for the intermediate stations. It is a via Crucis because the train is always insufficient. Few carriages made available to the first, the luckiest. Thousands of commuters abandoned in indecency.

The others are forced to put aside their dignity as a man, a woman, a worker, to elbow with other poor people who wake up at night to go to work.

Yes, because the scene that takes place every morning is the same. The train stops in the intermediate stations. The seats are all sold out. Commuters elbow, push, scream to enter the already full carriages. In the wagons there is an unbreathable air but the worst thing is that after a few hours of sleep, even if you pay for the ticket or the season ticket, that trip of an hour or an hour and a half, you have to do it on your feet, crammed with thousands of people who had to leave their dignity at home to travel like animals today.

Every morning is the same story. Every morning there is someone who asks the train manager if something can be done, if the reports are made. And it is even more atrocious to look into the eyes of those poor railway officials who by shrugging their shoulders and with a small voice they tell you that the report is made every day.

This is the story of the 7530 Cassino-Rome train, but it is the story of all the other trains that bring thousands of workers to Rome or Milan or Turin, starting from the regional suburbs.

Always insufficient to guarantee the "dignified" transport of thousands of men and women. "

How does this de facto situation of national transport take place in phase 2?

Providing by law that trains must be spaced apart would be a way of not solving the problem.

The worried question of millions of Italian commuters is this. What did the government intend to do to make commuters travel in situations of health security on trains that are normally hellish bills?

Are they thinking about it?

Phase 2, as will be done with commuters

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