Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Smog in Milan and Turin: public transport for free – Today

          
               
      
     
         
     


       
         
          


       
       
       

The air is sick. Why in Turin public transport will be free on 10 and 11 December 2015. Milan is not put on the best face pollution, and also in the capital Milanese administration has decided to promote public transport. Do not pay the ticket on surface transport (bus, tram and bus) from today until Friday, even the adults accompanying the children to school and have free bikes of the bike sharing service “BikeMi”.


 
 

Turin. “Two days of free public transport to give a strong signal. And ‘what he decided to do GTT, the company of urban transport, given that air quality is getting worse increasingly also due to pollution of the cars. “Leave the car, traveling for free,” is the slogan chosen for the days of Thursday 10 and Friday, December 11 (from 5 to midnight) to ensure that the people of Turin opt for public transport to go home or to work and leave their car parked under the house.

 
 

Free will all GTT 88 lines and the subway every day recorded over 150,000 hits. Interested in the two-day “against smog” even lines of the consortium Extra.To linking the province of Turin, Turin City and which includes 21 companies for 160 thousand people a day transported. Even the rural network, through the consortium Extra.To allow users to move free on the following guidelines: Pinerolo – Turin; Ivrea – Torino; Giaveno (Val Sangone) – Turin; Saluzzo – Carmagnola – Villafranca – Turin; Rubiana – Turin; Lanzo – Ciriè – Torino; Condove – Turin; Varallo – Turin; Orbassano – Volvera – Torino; Varisella – Turin; Carignano – Piobesi – Turin; Caselle airport – Turin.


 
 

“A call to responsibility for all – say by Gruppo Torinese Trasporti – a concrete sign facing frequent users and city users with a concrete gesture to contribute to actions that the City has long undertaken to improve the quality of ‘ air. Only with concerted actions, only a long-term plan and shared by all social actors is in fact possible to lower pollution levels. “

 
 

MILAN, PM10 stars: bus, tram and BikeMi “free” and other measures for the smog alert. The City Council has decided to make free surface transport Atm for adults from Wednesday 9 to Friday, 11 December, will use them to accompany their children to school up to 10 years old (for which the ticket is normally already free). It ‘the first extraordinary degree desired by Palazzo Marino to counter elvati levels of PM 10 in.


 
 

The second measure by the Municipality of Milan to encourage even more sustainable mobility in these days is the free, always from Wednesday 9 to Friday 11, the day tickets BikeMi. To use the service you will need to subscribe by credit card (as for the standard subscription), but will not be charged any amount.


 
 

“From the Summit of Mayors of COP21 in Paris emerged strongly that climate change is affecting all cities in the world and that actions to save the planet must be both global and local have a real impact on the environment. Therefore, we must continue to work together to build a model of sustainable development. And this is the goal that is pursued by the Protocol of Cooperation between the Metropolitan City of Milan and the municipalities in its territory for the improvement of air quality, which measures could trigger the next Wednesday, December 9, when dust levels thin detected these days persist. ” So says the mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia and the metropolitan city on the approach of the tenth consecutive day of exceeding the daily average of 50 micrograms per cubic meter of PM10, detected by Arpa Lombardia in the ten stations in Arese, Cassano d ‘ Adda, Limito di Pioltello, Magenta, Milan Città Studi, Milan Senate, Milan Verziere, Robecchetto, Trezzo d’Adda and Turbigo.

 
 

From Wednesday, December 9, in Milan and in the municipalities of the metropolitan city that will join, the measures provided for by the Protocol: driving ban throughout the city for Euro 3 diesel vehicles without fap (for where entry is already banned in Area C), from 8.30 to 18 private ones, from 7.30 to 10 if trade (measure that adds to regional bans already applied during the winter months). In addition, there is the decrease of 1 degree centigrade of heating from 20 ° to 19 ° (with 2 degrees of tolerance), and the reduction of two hours (14 to 12) of the duration of lighting plants. Is finally asked to dealers not to make use of devices, in order to facilitate the entry of the public, allow you to keep the doors to enter the premises.


 
 

“The actions taken by municipalities – adds Pisapia – can really make a difference if this battle is fought through the virtuous behavior of individual citizens. For this reason we decided to accompany the restrictions provided for in the Protocol with two exceptional measures, which raise awareness and encourage people to leave their cars at home and travel by private transport and those shared. Everyone can contribute and Milan have already demonstrated on several occasions to be very careful to environmental issues “.


 
 

Finally, on the occasion of the holiday season, BikeMi further launches promotion for new annual subscriptions that, from next Monday, 7 December and until January 10, 2016, will cost EUR 26 (instead of 36). (From MilanoToday.it)

       
 
        
 
 
 
       

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