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the The weekend of December 19-20 is the last you can go out before the holiday season: and from Friday morning at Malpensa airport there was an air of Exodus, with hundreds of people hanging out. For the most part domestic flights, with people returning to their cities of origin, in addition to some outings for the European countries where there are no prohibitions. It is estimated that the weekend About 200,000 people will leave the Lombard capital: circa 80 thousand will take the plane (peak on Friday), 50 thousand the train and the rest of the traffic will go on the highway in private vehicles.
Sea announced the number of departures scheduled for the weekend: 56 thousand from Malpensa and 24 thousand from Linate, a much more intense flow than in the last days (in the entire week from December 11 to 16 there were 55 thousand) although without comparison with last year: -88% compared to the same period in 2019, when Covid was already circulating in Italy but nobody knew about it and people still moved calmly to go on vacation.
There Milan central station i checked in on thursday night crowd first moments, waiting for the night trains. Friday morning continuous flow of travelers since the early hours of the morning, but generally quiet situation. Trains operate at 50% of their capacity and the number of trains is 30% of those that traveled before the epidemic; Separate paths and controls at the entrance turnstiles. About fifty long-distance trains that during the day they will leave Milan for the Center-South: practically Sold out tickets for the Frecciarossa from Milan to Naples Friday, and on the Trenitalia website there are very few places left even for Saturday and Sunday.
“This growing uncertainty about what the travel restrictions will be in the period between Christmas and New Years has pushed many, at least those who can, to move ahead using the train and plane. Central Station, Linate and Malpensa are the most frequent trips in reverse, so there are very few to the city “says Emilio Boccalini, president of Taxiblu 02.4040, radio taxi of Milan. “Certainly,” he explains, “there has been an increase in recent weeks, but we must also be honest and say that we started from last month’s data when the races each were at most one or two per day.”
The Lombard Governor Attilio Fontana a couple of weeks ago he had already raised the alarm of the exodus: “We risk reliving what happened in the night between March 7 and 8. It is legitimate for people to leave and come home, but closing everything on a specific day implies the risk of a crowd, too many people moving, and for a worse situation to be created than gradually letting people go home. We will have to try to equip ourselves. And in fact, the Viminale machine for anti-harvest controls in the squares and for the monitoring of roads, stations and airports. “Specific services have been planned in the road and motorway network and, to avoid crowds, in railway stations, ports and airports, as well as in public transport terminals” as decided during the National Commission for Public Safety, chaired in the Ministry of the Interior by Minister Lamorgese.
December 18, 2020 | 09:52
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