Your station is clean?
Returning from Terni (train) the other day I stumbled upon this sign information presented in several parts of Umbria in the station: "With a text message your station is cleaner." Just send an SMS to 313.8083544 and, in theory, part of a message to the company which is entrusted with the cleaning station (in this case SNAM LAZIO).
Commendable initiative. Moreover, the station of Terni I found it very clean (even if it did not work with the monitor train schedules and information on the tracks ... .. sigh ... but maybe it was random). Obviously, this service makes more sense if the other side (user side) is the same level of attention to the degradation. That is, if you do not throw paper, cans, cups and paper towels on the floor.
Did I mention another campaign, to a larger scale, which was launched in England . There, even the Times has launched a campaign calling for the citizen (consumer) to send an email (onlinepics@thetimes.co.uk) for stations that do not meet the minimum standards of service quality and propriety: assessing minimum standards, services offered, how the information is provided to passengers and ease of access. The only complaints are the fact (not negligible effects) have to use the bags in the subways with the change of track
The goal? Create a sort of "bulletin board of shame" in order to prompt improvements in the handlers. In fact, the Secretary of State for Transport (Lord Adoins) has already promised a series of interventions: duplicate parking spaces for bicycles and the parking of vehicles (strange, we make them pay ....) even quantified in 10,000 stalls per year, the improvements will become one of the stations of the evaluation criteria of the managers of the railway companies (private) will set minimum standards for all stations;
Moral
Maybe it's really important to organize these forms of mobilization, protest and civil groped to raise the quality of services. Maybe need to raise your voice, meaning picture, motivate, inform responsible for transport. The state of decay strikes the eye only as a result of some news story that takes place in small suburban stations. The English experience, moreover, stems from a trip to the charge transport between the main British stations.
Who knows, I might take action, perhaps by this blog on the Rome-Velletri, a journey in search of quality, perhaps lost, easier than ever known.
