After the first news and details on the light rail route that will connect Cagliari to Sestu, a press conference was held today in the council chamber of the municipality of Sestu . A way to take stock of the details of the route, but also to talk about plans for the future.
« A very important work, many realities gravitate around Sestu on which it will influence; it will help to reduce traffic, it will have clear repercussions on an environmental and social level », explains the regional councilor for reforms Michele Cossa, one of the major organizers.
As explained by Carlo Poledrini, central director of ARST, the route covers almost five kilometers of line, from the Monserrato hospital to Sestu, with a stop in the Athenaeum area, and the terminus in corso d'Italia, in the heart of the town . Four new bidirectional and air-conditioned trams will operate the double-track line. The frequency? «Twenty minutes, in principle, which we can even reduce to fifteen» , Poledrini guarantees.
«We don't stop», explains the mayor Paola Secci, « in the next fifteen or twenty years we want to get the metro to the shopping center in front of the 131 » – in other words the Corte del Sole – «and then working with the other Municipalities , will arrive in Assemini, at the Elmas airport. An exchange car park will also be ready for the summer, built with municipal resources between Corso Italia and Via Dante. Furthermore, working with the metropolitan city, we managed to intercept seven million euros to improve our section of the new 131 ».
For the mayor of the metropolitan city of Cagliari Paolo Truzzu, «this is an example of good politics because all the administrations have been able to dialogue» . While according to the regional councilor for transport, Antonio Moro, the surface meter "returns the territory to the citizens and this is an act of social justice".
