They were presented last Thursday by the mayor Virginia Raggi in Tor Bella Monaca and the first failures have already occurred. The news is reported by Corriere della Sera according to an indiscretion of the drivers.
Yesterday was the photo shot on the net, a dashboard on which an unexpected "engine failure" and a stationary bus (913 line) near Lepanto are flashing. Atac speaks of physiological problems.
Surely it will be physiological problems, but the event is not encouraging. In fact, on twitter, on the profile of the blogger Mercurio Viaggiatore who first spreads the incredible image of the new bus 2217 exhausted in the middle of the road (via Marcantonio Colonna) with the red triangle in front, the comments are merciless: Simona writes: "For me they should go home and not just for buses ”. Chiara speaks directly to the mayor Raggi: "It's all beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ".
Out of the total of 20 buses in circulation, 227 will arrive in the coming months, four breakdowns were reported between Thursday and yesterday: an engine fault, a faulty door, a detached ceiling light, a bus stopped in the street. It is precisely the car number 2217, which the other day in the photos of the press conference peeped out just behind the mayor and which instead stopped in Lepanto. The employees, reports the Corriere della Sera, repeat that it happens that the new vehicles need a few weeks of running in. While Atac clarifies that, in any case, the buses are under warranty and that therefore any problem is borne by the manufacturer.