“Increase the wages of Start’s drivers with the millions collected in the fight against ticket evasion”. It is the proposal, already made several weeks ago, that Gioenzo Renzigroup leader of Fratelli d’Italia in Rimini, will submit this evening, Thursday 28 November, to the city council. The councillor, in the note sent to the media, lists point by point everything that is wrong with the service offered by the company.
“There are continuous disruptions, with public transport bus routes canceled and protests increasing – he remarks -. In particular by students and workers, due to arriving late at school and at work. The causes, as is known, are the insufficiency of drivers, with the workforce in the Rimini basin of 260 drivers, undersized by around twenty units due to the difficulties of new hiring, considering the unattractive net monthly salary of 1,250 euros” .
The other big issue, continues the FdI group leader, is that which concerns “widespread ticket processing of travel”. “The agreement stipulated by Start and Holacheck is inadequate – observes Renzi -. There are no checks on buses before 7am and after 7.30pm, while the bus service starts at 5am and ends well after midnight. So, currently, buses travel without ticket checks for many hours.”
In addition to the hours of activity, the FdI group leader also places emphasis on the quantity of active operators. “Ten anti-evasion controllers throughout Romagna are insufficient – he stigmatizes -. Two teams of three controllers each in the province of Rimini, faced with 1,800 daily trips carried out, and remembering that the action of one team can control a maximum of 30 trips per day”.
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“I believe that a concrete and drastic fight against ticket evasion – this is the crux of Renzi’s proposal – would allow the company to collect the millions of euros necessary to increase wages and the number of drivers. It is necessary, however, that the evasion of travel documents, instead of being ‘silenced’ by Start, is effectively countered and eliminated”.
“I will ask – he concludes referring to the council question – how many checks are foreseen every year according to the agreement and those actually carried out by Holacheck, and whether it is no longer functional to strengthen and train Start Romagna’s own teams against travel ticket processing. Among the countermeasures, I also propose the installation of turnstiles on buses to regulate, with the possession of a ticket, boarding buses, as has been done in Anglo-Saxon countries”.
