In the night between 2 and 3 October 2020 the Storm Alex devastated the Roya valley, making the railway connection unusable
Ventimiglia – The first train of the Cuneo-Ventimiglia, also known as the “Railway of Wonders”, which was reactivated after about fourteen months, from the night between 2 and 3 October 2020, when the Tempesta Alex devastated the Roya valley, making the railway, which connects the Ligurian coast of Ponente to Piedmont, unusable. The missing stretch, where it was not yet possible to travel, was the one between Breil and Ventimiglia.
“The reopening of this section is a source of great satisfaction for our city – said the mayor of Ventimiglia, Gaetano Scullino -. We have had this year, especially in the summer period, a 35 percent non-arrival of Piedmontese tourists. , an enormous damage to our economy. A connection that, today, puts us in a position to go to Cuneo and receive the Piedmontese. I hope that the number of journeys will increase. The line is there, the trains are there, but it is clear that the times will have to be calibrated “.
For the deputy Flavio Di Muro (Lega): “Finally we start again, but we are still waiting for some from the government, a point on which, even recently, we have all worked together to bring resources to the Municipality, businesses and individuals, who are waiting It is also a phase of restarting tourism, hopefully, naturally more investments are needed for this line, which is fundamental for Italy and France. The recent pact of the Quirinale between the two neighboring countries is a good starting point for working on all the bureaucracy that prevents us from strengthening this line “.
Also present at the ceremony was Sergio Scibilia, president of the Giuseppe Biancheri association, which is responsible for safeguarding and enhancing the line. “Today the isolation with the Roya valley broke – he declared – caused by a storm that destroyed the Roya valley and also left some dead. Thanks to this train, we return to travel and reactivate those historical links between Piedmont and Liguria. A train that someone had thought of closing, which they considered a dead branch, but which actually serves the people and our populations “.
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