A black day for trains. Wednesday 2 October, from 6.30am, cancellations e delays have sent railway traffic haywire, from North to South, due to a fault at the station Rome Termini. According to reports from Matteo Salvini, a private company had carried out some work the previous night, “driving a nail into a cable“. But it’s not enough for the Minister of Transport, after the attacks he suffered he demands i nomi hey surnames: “Whoever made a mistake will answer for it”.
Over 100 trains cancelled, many delayed: Italy in chaos
The balance of the failure between Rome Tiburtina e Rome Termini it’s devastating.
We talk about over 100 trains cancelled, dozens delayed and inconvenienced passengers from North to South, also due to the collapse of the Bologna hub.
The fault caused by a nail on a cable
The fault that paralyzed Italy’s tracks was apparently caused by “a nail driven into a cable” by the staff of one private company, who had evidently made a “mistake”.
The news was announced by the Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, target of fierce criticism from the opposition: “The reaction time in the face of this error was not up to the level that Europe’s second industrial power should have. The private individual will be held accountable.”
The leader of the League is furious. Taken fromAgi he added that engineers are working on the incident, because “it is not possible to invest billions of euros to buy new carriages and new trains” and “if someone hammers the nail in the wrong place at 3 am you will ruin the working day of thousands of people”.
And he unloads on the company that carried out the work: “It is not possible that a mistake by a private individual can stop half of Italy“.
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Photo source: ANSA
Source: notizie.virgilio.it
