ANM has officially confirmed the new technical tests which will allow the arrival of a new train for the underground line 1. The latter, however, will suffer a stoppage on the day of 14 February 2023 (Saint Valentine). Unfortunately, it will not only involve the morning but it will be from the hours 09: 15 16 at: 55.
Last departure times and resumption of service
Last departures
- from Piscinola 09 hours: 12
- from Garibaldi 09 hours: 16
For the resumption of service the following departures have been scheduled:
• Direction Piscinola
o 17:04 from Garibaldi;
o 17:00 at Dante's;
o 17:00 from Gold Medals.
• Direction Garibaldi
o 17:01 at Dante's;
o 17:01 from Gold Medals;
o 17 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 ".
