TURIN-LYON. FREQUENT LIES. LINK
TURIN-LYON. COMMON PLACES. LINK
PRESENTATION ABOUT TURIN-LYON COST AND TRAFFIC ESTIMATIONS. LINK


ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN ITALY FIGHT A 'GREEN' PROJECT. FROM HERALD TRIBUNE.

THOUSANDS OF DEMONSTRATORS HAVE MARCHED THROUGH A VALLEY IN NORTHERN ITALY TO PROTEST AGAINST A PLANNED HIGH-SPEED RAIL LINK BETWEEN FRANCE AND ITALY. LINK

            

                                                           

THE REASONS FOR SAYING NO TO TAV-TAC
10 quick answers to sum up the reasons of our position

Why do the mayors, the administrators and the inhabitants of a very widespread area, which stretches from the Valley of Susa to the north-west suburbs of Turin, say no to the high capacity railway line Turin-Lyon?

Because it is unacceptable that a project with such an importance and high impact, i.e. a high speed/capacity railway line, is undertaken without involving the inhabitants of the areas in question;
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Because a land, which is already crossed by a river, a motorway - ringroad, two main roads, an international railway line, two long distance power lines cannot bear a new infrastructure without seeing compromised both its own future development (from the touristic, agricultural and residential view point) and its current liveability level;

Because the night sleep would constantly be interrupted by the noise made by the many hundreds of foreseen trains, thus causing serious consequences to the health (you just need to think of what Malpensa airport is causing);

·Because this area (after the closing up of the Mont Blanc tunnel), daily crossed by 7.000 trucks, 110 trains and 15.000 - 20.000 cars, plays already and fully its role as connection between Italy and France;

Because the propaganda forecasts of the movers (for the next 20 years) are based on foreseen traffic streams, which are nowadays proved wrong by the actual trends of the last 10 years. Plus, the Barcelona-Kiev corridor (east-west) has no ground since the goods are actually conveyed on a north-south corridor;

Because a study on traffic streams, recently ordered by the Mountain Consortium of Communes, and basing itself on Governmental Committee and French data (SETEC), highlights the uselessness of this new line: the forecast of passing from the road to the rail traffic is equal to 1%. As an effective and economical alternative, such study indicates also the use of all current Alpine crossings (modernized both from the technical and the environmental point of view);

Because a new infrastructure would expose the area (already threatened hydrogeologically) to serious risks of floods (as it is shown in a study on the Dora Riparia river made by the Mountain Consortium of Communes);
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Because it is a project with a devastating impact on the environment and with enormous costs both for its construction (at least 1.600.000.000 euros) and for all the consequent following-up. Such costs would be either paid by everybody, i.e. by all of us inhabitants of this area, or would be deducted from the health care system, the public school, the retirement pension, the social services;

Because on the following 15 / 20 years, this valley and the Turin suburban area would turn into a single yard with hundreds of trucks conveying daily extracted material from the 54 Km-long tunnel under the Moncenisio passage and from the other 40 Km-long tunnels all along the valley, thus causing dust, noise and vibrations;

Because the inhabitants of the Valley of Susa, who already put up with the environmental impact of the road traffic, have been among the first asking to transfer part of the goods traffic on the railroad.
Yet, we ask that all this will be made by:

- Splitting the traffic streams between the other railway lines and the road crossings already connecting Italy to Europe. These lines will have to be optimized and made compatible to the area, but at the same time they have to answer the territory needs without cutting off the Piedmontese region, as someone erroneously thinks;

- Rationalizing the traffic streams, thus avoiding useless haulage and empty trains, which are currently very numerous.

- Letting only containers in the train and not the whole truck (as it happens nowadays), like the high capacity line proposal.

18-1-2003: PETITION TO THE EUROPEAN TRANPORT COMMISSION

Original signatures are at Legambiente Circolo Valle Susa head Office of Bussoleno.

Download the petition (PDF format)

- Query presented to the European Parliament.

- Ministry of the Environment's CIG reports' original documents.


- High speed rail network in Italy: Italian history repeats itself, a huge business, and an opportunity that cannot be missed…. And nobody wants to miss it. Available in Documents section.

- Tuesday 27th November, Local administration's demonstration in Perigueux, France, in order to demonstrate against the fact that the area they represent is not involved in the "Railway link Turin-Lyon" issue.


- Saturday 24th November - massive demonstration in Avigliana, against the TAV/TGV (High speed train) : photos.

- A violated hydro-geological balance: an independent study delivered to the Low Valley Mountain Community, by the Engineer Bellino, vice-president of Engineers' order in Turin Province, summarized in an article that appeared in Luna Nuova

- The original video of the episode entitled "The big work" from the program called "Report", which refers to the Susa Valley issues, is available in Real player format, on the site Report (download).

- The whole version of the study commissioned by the Mountain Community, to the Polinomia Society of Milan, is available in zip format. The conclusion based on 180 pages of engineering study, is only one: The Turin-Lyon rail line is useless and expensive.

Polinomia S.r.L. Internet address: http://space.tin.it/scienza/dahog/

Here is the synthesis of the main problems, as they emerge from this study.

It is also available in a 36-page version.


- The stocks' scandal of Mugello's TAV, currently being aired in the main national media, reinforces our doubts about a problem, which has often been given little consideration: the violation of the delicate hydro-geological balance in our Valley.

- Visit this Link, you will find the pictures of the construction work, which will definitely devastate the valley, if the new rail link comes into realisation. Something similar has never been built in an Alpine Valley.

 

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