THE REPUBLIC OF PALERMO - January 5, 2010
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Those rules on our bus nobody enforces
Francesco Palazzo
The companies that work takes only a few standards, respected by all and enforced, to make things go in the right direction. Once a provision is enacted, simply apply. Always. For us, however, the regulations serve as the cries Manzoni. Many and detailed, and then repeated consistently forgotten. Just go to the newspapers and it is as if the thing was done. But since then clicks as a tacit agreement between controllers and controlled, the first they pretend not to understand, the latter pretend not to see. Take, for example, dell'Amat the announcement dated 20 April 2010. The homepage of the site is still in business, c´è pure un bel disegnino di un autobus. Nella bussola anteriore c´è scritto salita, nella altre discesa. Tutto chiaro. A partire da quella data, dunque, a bordo dei mezzi pubblici si poteva salire solo dalla porta anteriore. L´unica obliteratrice sarebbe stata posta proprio dalla parte della salita, gli abbonati avrebbero dovuto mostrare subito il tesserino. Lo scopo era quello di abbattere significativamente il plotone, assai cospicuo, dei passeggeri abusivi. Bene. Anzi, male. Perché, dopo qualche settimana, tutto è tornato come prima. Se è possibile, anche peggio. Basta che prendiate qualsiasi autobus, ma potete limitarvi al 101, il bus più frequentato della città, per rendervi conto che si sale e si scende da qualsiasi compass. With all due respect of the adhesives, downhill and uphill, with sleeves and stuck on the obvious failure of the policy of reducing non-paying passengers. Also announced in April included a tightening of controls. Thirty-two verifiers would have passed fifty-two, the latter number to the truth that it is entirely inappropriate for a public transport network is very extensive as that of Palermo. But as the reviewers should be in pairs, the number of units occurs - let's call them - it would have been twenty-six. Twenty-six pairs of verifiers that were claimed dall'AMAT, were stationed in front of the bus to check the bookings. To the truth, if every time you see the couple on board, these individual and careful scrutineers of tickets if they are seen very few. Even less we could see the security guards who, on an experimental basis, from April 20, would have to ensure safety. We do not know if, as planned, have been used for a few hours also aids traffic. In short, it provided public transport full of supervisors, but the result was the usual hole in the water. So much so that we can assume, the Beloved is perhaps not even able to recover, in terms of more tickets are canceled, the cost of brochures with which the new rules had to present to users. The website reads dell'Amat a previous study estimated that about 35 percent of the total non-paying. Perhaps the study should be updated. At a rough guess that percentage seems very optimistic. To think that need little effort to address this issue. Anything science fiction. I normally do in London, New York and who knows how many other places. If you drive the vehicle, no other media rights - thus making the community pay one salary - it is found that all go up the right side. If someone violates the driver stopped the bus and calls by decision, the offender to enter the front door to show a valid travel document or paying the ticket to him. Too complicated? You could try. Perhaps adding to drivers, at the beginning, just the time that Palermo habituation, as well as the company's staff, including part of former Pip, now distributed without any criterion in public offices. Of course, establish rules of conduct and then not implementing them is useless, if not worse, even more, the livability of a city already suffering enough.
