Le technical tests of new trains are putting a strain on the Neapolitan citizens, but the commissioner Cosenza points out that, while painful, it is a sacrifice to enter a second train which will consequently make a very great improvement to the practicability of the city.
The new stop of Metro 1 Line, for technical tests on rolling stock, is scheduled for Thursday 9 February 2023 From 09:15 16:45. It is to communicate it ANM through its official website and social networks.
Last departure times and resumption of service
Last Departures
- from Piscinola at 09: 12
- from Garibaldi at 09:16
Resumption of service
• Piscinola Management:
o 16:52 from Garibaldi;
o 16 pm from Town Hall;
o 16:46 from Vanvitelli.
• Direction Garibaldi:
o 16 pm from Materdei;
o 16 pm from Rione Alto;
o 16 pm from Piscinola.
Alternative services during the stop
During the suspension of the exercise it will be possible to resort to the following main ones alternative surface services:
– Piscinola-Garibaldi > R5 line
– Piscinola-Vomero > line 180
– Piscinola-Dante-Museum > C67 line
– Frullone-Dante-Museum > line 168
– Hospitals-Vomero-Dante-Toledo > line 139
– Hospitals-Dante-Toledo-Town Hall-University > line 204
– Vomero-Dante-Museum > line 147
– Garibaldi-Town Hall > R2 line
– Piscinola-Chiaiano-Frullone-Hospitals > line 665 (line 1 replacement service)
Why are the tests done during the day and not at night?
La night programming at the moment it is not possible, to communicate it is ANSFISA (the National Agency for the Safety of Railways and Road and Highway Infrastructures) underlining a current union agitation.
Just in the days before the mayor Manfredi specified that the decision to carry out the tests during the day, and not at night as was done in the past, is due to a union dispute for which the inspectors want to work exclusively during the day.
“There's a national problem on the metro that I've been fighting for months. The tests, which do not depend on the Municipality but on a national agency, have always been carried out at night but now there is a union dispute for which the inspectors only want to work during the day. This is an inconvenience that I consider unacceptable. The tests must be carried out otherwise the trains would stop and we would not be able to implement the new ones that everyone is waiting for. Now I hope that there will be greater sensitivity, at a national level, to spare the Neapolitan citizens these inconveniences and, as has always been done and as we have asked, to go back to testing trains at night ".
