In 2023 the Pnrr, which envisaged extensive interventions on the railways, "was remodulated: 620 million to speed up the Rome-Pescara corridor were blocked by the length of the administrative process; the intervention on the Ertms railway signaling, the latest generation safety system for the railways, it was canceled due to the lack of raw materials; the Palermo-Catania would not have returned in time for the completion of the interventions in 2026, and was therefore remodelled".
Legambiente stated this by presenting the 'Pendolaria' report and noting that "in total, on the Av/Ac system in the south, there were 840 million cuts: Orsara-Bovino (Naples-Bari line) for 53 million, Caltanissetta Xirbi-Lercara (line Palermo-Catania) for 470 million, Enna-CaltanissettaXirbi (Palermo-Catania line) for 317 million".
In order not to plunder the railway system of the many necessary resources, continues the NGO, "the Orte-Falconara and the Metaponto-Potenza lines, as well as other regional routes, have been included in the new planned interventions. Reduced by a third in new hydrogen trains to be purchased: from 150 to 50".
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