To date there is no certainty about how and when the CAL Consortium, the new manager who will replace Atinom, will become operational. And if in his plans is the desire to serve the towns now disserviti. The only sure thing is that kids who used to call the bus to get home from schools in the surrounding towns, found themselves standing in the middle of winter.
a serious problem especially for security, because they are clear to all risks in using bicycles (especially in bad weather), because of the lack of bicycle lanes to Abbiategrasso and Magenta. In the case of Cascinazza also to Robecco. Without considering the disastrous state (dangerous to motorists themselves) the section of road between Casterno-Cascinazza and Abbiategrasso, the scene of accidents almost daily.
MEETING - Saturday, January 15 families have requested a meeting jointly with the Department of Education and the mayor of Robecco Marzullo Robecco Zanoni. The meeting revealed that the municipality is unable to compensate in any way with its own power to the disappearance of the service, let alone find a solution to address at least the emergency winter. The Administration advised the families to put forward proposals in the future in any negotiating table with CAL. The citizens remained without means, were urged to develop a kind of "census" of kids who use, have used and could have used (even by the next school year) the means to call. In fact, the families had already started to collect the data and then word of mouth, in addition to seeking its own solution. But such activity has always been hampered by the fact that requests and emails addressed to various authorities, in most cases they do not receive any response. Besides the fact that the contacts of the users of the medium, for privacy reasons, we are precluded, thus preventing contact them.
administrative effort - its part, the administration promised then that will address ATINOM as a partner in the company, to know the details of the actual use and at colleges of Magenta and Abbiategrasso. Surely can more easily obtain data in relation to citizens.
USING DATA - To date, our records speak of 20 weekly bookings only Robecco and a far greater use of nearby towns. Then rising from the previous six months (January to June 2010 with well over 1041 calls 7 municipalities) that ended with 380 calls in one Robecco, then about 15 per week. (Source Day of the wood). As we all know who uses it, from September on the way back from Abbiategrasso happened that there were also 7 boys on the same half, and still expanding. These numbers, given the start and end of service (nine in the morning when it was already in class or at work) and implicit limits (related to the fact that they are not lines but stable routes booked individually) should give pause. It would have been enough to start at 7.00 am and probably the numbers would be doubled. Stretch in the evening to allow workers to even recourse to triple. Publicize a minimum to increase further. The question of numbers seems to be a pretext, and unfortunately conceals the lack of willingness to focus on public transport, support and actively encouraged.
limits described, is not clear to critics of the medium, who allege that the "few" users do not justify the expense. But doing a little effort to analyze it easily understand that the service is structured as ever you can have large numbers. Indeed to be frank, in some cases Atinom has great difficulty in reconciling reservations and passages, trying to satisfy many users as possible, and we must acknowledge. As the commitment made last year to support 50% of the cost of the entire service, following the reduction in funding in the province.
COSTS - The service (from what has been learned in the press) cost about € 100,000 a year. About 8,000 € per month. Last year it covered: from 4000 € Atinom, € 2000 by the Province, the remaining € 2,000 from 7 municipalities, then a few hundred euro each. Fee charged to the municipalities further reduced to 1,800 by September. (Repeat information learned in the press).
If they were not yet clear the implicit limits of the system "on call", we recommend reading this article: http://milano.corriere.it/milano/notizie/cronaca/11_gennaio_21/stop- radiobus-protest-women-atm-181300431950.shtml
The significant thing is that Milan have understood the limits of the reservation and will provide a single set of fixed lines. What will not happen in our area, or at least, the municipalities do not reveal will design, designing solutions that integrate inter least some part of independent initiatives already undertaken in recent years, but for reasons of scale are difficult to sustain. E 'Magenta well known that to maintain stable two lines of city buses is a serious loss. Why not restructure these lines by integrating transit to other small towns in the area?
Another impressive figure, of which perhaps are not very aware, are about 110-120 boys aged between 13 and 18 years, residents in the villages of sun Robecco. It would be very helpful to understand how do they move and what are their destinations. To date, unfortunately, an analysis Such was not attempted although in the past called for several times.
be demonstrated that there are potential users, that nothing precludes the possibility of designing bus lines stable, even if limited, at times, with the use of a minibus for 14 people who would find it difficult to find the paths that currently cover. It 'should bring home to citizens who complain about the commuter traffic even in letters to newspapers, that the only way to reduce it is to use public transport for journeys to and from school work. The classic routes that commuters congest our center. And since the public would rather cut services rather than expanding them, request them to take responsibility for ourselves strongly.
In any case, the Usage Analysis is certainly useful in the long term, but in short, more immediately, we are looking for autonomy a quick fix. Then:
We invite all families and children who used it to get in touch with us to try to stop the problem as soon as possible. To plan solutions to car sharing, shared transport, ensuring the availability and the need for steps. E 'can also study a simple form of reimbursement for those who were granted passes, by helping the families that will surely time paying willingly rather than send their children to risk their necks in the fog of recent days.
be noted that unfortunately the many emails sent in the province to urge a solution, they have received no response. Therefore we hope that our citizens will be informed by our shared status of provincial plans and the future operator of tpl.
from noting that in all these years of continuous renewal in the last minute cancellation of the bus and threatened to call the institutions demonstrate that they have no foresight and did not know to analyze needs and potential of the territory. In addition to clearly imply that public transport is not considered strategic, but a cost to be cut, rather than the (only) to reduce commuter traffic el 'pollution (in the first 16 days of January 2011 in 14 has exceeded the alarm threshold of fine). Only solution that would ensure that everyone, especially the less' vulnerable population, mobility. Then a BETTER QUALITY 'of life and less pollution.
It seems absurd that the gates of a great European metropolis, a few years that will host the Universal Exhibition, is prevented by public transport to thousands of citizens to entire towns. Worse, that children do not have the opportunity to achieve security in the schools!
It 's a shame that we can not abide!
A final appeal: we expect the active support of those citizens who robecchesi in recent weeks are filling the columns of local newspapers to complain about the excessive traffic that passes through the center of Robecco. We are sure you are aware that cutting public transport does nothing but worsen the situation.
