Cuneo and Nice ask throw again of the railway line Turin-Cuneo-Nice



Monday slid to Nice vice-president of the Conseil Général DES Alpes-Maritimes, Eric Ciotti, the president of the Province of Cuneo, Gianna Gancia, and the representatives of the other authorities and territorial associations of the regions of Nice and Cuneo have signed an agreement for throw again of the traffic goods and passengers on the railway line Turin - Cuneo - Limone Piemonte - She stretches - Breil - Nice - Ventimiglia.

Destroyed at the end of the last war, the railway line between Breil and Tenda have been object of a convention Franco-Italian signed on June 24, 1970 relative to its reconstruction and the modalities of maintenance and management. The line is reopened to the traffic on October 6, 1979. From December 2009 not there are more French neither Italian trains that carry out the connection directed between Nice and Cuneo because of the incompatibility of the identifying one between the two Countries. Although the numerous claims of the territorial agencies, the shopkeepers have not still supplied their rotabile material of an identifying indispensable interoperabile in order to guarantee services directed between Nice, Cuneo and Turin. Moreover many deteriorations of the infrastructure exist that put in difficulty the management of the line.

The signed agreement monday to Nice emphasizes the interest of the two Countries in favor of the infrastructure and of the level of service, besides to restate the fundamental importance that the railway connection covers for the economic and tourist development of the two territories. France and Italy ask to value this line, that the connection directed between Turin and Nice must allow and Costa Azzurra through the interoperability of the convoys and the rules of safety, and renew of the infrastructure. They turn therefore to the respective ones governs a pressing appeal so that they promptly proceed to the definition of a new convention, that it exceeds that obsolete one of 1970, so to guarantee an just division of the financial burdens of I renew, maintenance and management of the railway connection. The document asserts their total availability to concur with all the other agencies interested to the elaboration and the presentation of projects in order to obtain from the European Union the necessary contributions and wishes the participation of all agencies to the proposal advanced from the Conseil Général DES Alpes Maritimes to constitute an European Group of Territorial Cooperation (Gect) for the transboundary transport on that territory.

"For being able to have the circulation, it is of the goods, it is of the men - Gianna Gancia has declared - we need communication ways. Our communities are always more community sisters, with a past in municipality. They want to have also a future in municipality. Because a future in municipality can be had, we need communication ways. It is for that we cannot absolutely renounce to the railway connection Nice-Cuneo-Turin. Entirety, has been worked and fought for the improvement of the street tunnel of It stretches, than at last it is about to see the start of the work. Entirety, will be continued to work and to fight for the railway connection Nice-Cuneo-Turin. Not draft that of a beginning. I thank, therefore, president Eric Ciotti, and all the elected ones that they share our efforts for giving of the answers to the questions that our populations and our enterprises place to us".

To the signature of the agreement they were you anticipate, besides Gancia and Ciotti, the director of Infrastructures of the Municipality of Turin, Roberto Bertasio, the president of Mountain community of the Alps of the Sea, Ugo Boccacci, the mayor of Breil-sur-Roya, Joseph Ghilardi, the city council member of the Municipality of Cuneo, Gabriella Roseo, the mayor of Limone Piemonte, Francesco Revelli, the mayor of the Municipality of Stretches, Jean-Pierre Vassallo, the representative of the regional Chamber of Commerce and of the Industry It soothes of Marseilles and the Chamber of Commerce of Nice, Jean-Pierre Henry, and the representative of the Union Piemonte Chambers and the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Nice, Patrizia Dalmasso.