Naples Business Center Station, here is the first train: «Starting in December»

The picture you see at the top of this article was published, with the right enthusiasm, on the group’s social pagestransport consultant Edoardo Cosenza. Even if it seems to you just like a train arriving at a station, it is actually the the first train approaching the Centro Direzionale stop platform of Line 1 of the Naples metro: a real event for the world of Neapolitan transport.

The timing is particularly important, as it marks the official start of the definitive confirmation procedures for opening the new station to the public. The infrastructure is definitely ready, as the train can already pass. Now there is still the final stage, the study by the group of ministers who must give definitive approval to passenger access: it is a completely bureaucratic question, in short. And even if the bureaucracy is able to play terrible tricks on the face of “times”, this time it seems that the path is downhill and the official permits seem to have already been delivered. In short, the Centro Direzionale station is almost ready to be commissioned by December, as has been said for some time. Mayor Gaetano Manfredi. In fact, the consultant of Cosenza also said in the past that the turning point would be reached by the end of 2024, but yesterday, when those who asked for certainty on the opening day, b he prefers to answer with a warning: “It will open soon. , but I don’t want to go too far on a specific date.”

If the work at the Control Center station is already finished, the workers are still working in the next one, the one serving the Court: it will take a few more months to reach the goal of this stop which, however, should be completed in the first quarter of next year. Times for stations are longer Poggioreale e Capodichino that will have to wait at least until 2027.

In order to ensure the opening of the Business Center station, it was necessary to widen the path of the tracks so that there was the possibility of creating a movement space for the trains to allow travel to resume in the other direction. In fact, this portion of the interventions caused a slight extension of the times that pushed the opening originally planned for the harvest to the end of the year.

More newly built trains are gradually coming in, so the fleet of vehicles is on its way to being fully refurbished and modernized which will ensure longer journeys closer By entering the fleet of other vehicles, the need for train drivers is increasing and a new recruitment notice is ready after the last ones arrived from Rome and Milan, Neapolitans had to go worked in other places and returned to their city today. The specialist staffing problem is becoming a problem for transport across the country, which is competing for train drivers and handling managers due to the current shortage of staff available. The opening of the Centro Direzionale station, in addition to the expected extension of the Line 6 service, will also accelerate the induction program of new employees to Anm.