Transport and Infrastructure
Minister Graziano Delrio said Monday that "I have problems
privatizing Frecce trains with the regional public transport
inside".
He was speaking at a national meeting of the Democratic Party
(PD).
Last week he had said that NTV, which operates Italo
high-speed trains, should offer season tickets like State
railway company Trenitalia's Frecce speedsters.
"NTV is not obliged to do so because we're in a free-market
segment but it should," he said. He said season tickets were
becoming "increasingly necessary for students and commuters".
Delrio was speaking amid a row over significant price hikes
for commuters' season tickets on Frecciarossa and Frecciargento
trains by Trenitalia and its parent company Ferrovie dello
Stato.
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