The project of the Naples subway is to create a new network of connections, also called "Circular Line", Able to involve the highlights of the city: the ultimate result will be the underground line that will allow you to reach theCapodichino airport starting from Piazza Garibaldi. The structure was born from a project by Dominque Perrault, French architect and urban planner who has given life to other works in other great European cities; his creatures are the François Mitterand Library in Paris, the Mariinskij Theater in St. Petersburg, the Olympic swimming pool in Berlin and the redevelopment project of the ex-Rainone quarry in Salerno.
During the opening ceremony of the stop at the Garibaldi station, of Metro 1 which will take place on December 2, 2013, the first stone of the other new stop which is planned for the construction of the line will also be symbolically laid. At the same time, further interventions are planned for the restoration of the square: gardens and bus stops, but also a large underground car park.
Un beautiful project on paper but that as a Neapolitan I still see far from what the actual reality is. Great names for architectural works but which are then in antithesis with the social and citizen discomfort that has lived there for years. Like any self-respecting station, even the Piazza Garibaldi station has its homeless people who live on alms and the intervention of volunteers; then there are many scammers and illegal street vendors: there are those who sell you the lighter, those who sell you the "fortune" or a pair of socks.
Piazza Garibaldi is the node that connects the city to all neighboring countries: the morning arena to get on the metro train, the screams of commuters for the increasingly poor service of the Circumvesuviana, the anger of the workers of the same because they do not know what they will do with their future and continue to protest for a right ensured by the first article of our constitution.
Piazza Garibaldi is also the meeting place for all those Eastern European women who come to Italy looking for work and you see them wandering around the square with their whole life closed in one or two plastic bags. Piazza Garibaldi is where you can find lines of people who in a square of cloth sell what they found among the waste. Then when night comes, that same square is filled with little slave women from the sex market. All this is Piazza Garibaldi.
Welcome the maintenance works and the restoration of the city, but what do we do with a beautiful station if we cannot provide transport services? What good is a nice station if passengers are afraid to walk around the main square of the city?
Price updates 1st January 2015
From 2015 January XNUMX, the Neapolitan Public Transport Company has changed the fare system for traveling around the city. It will no longer be possible to buy Unico tickets but the Tic (Integrated Ticket Campania). Price increases but also news for the new year:
- Single Travel Ticket valid for city buses, underground and funiculars 1 Euro;
- Più Corse ticket valid for city buses, mentropolitane, circumvesuviane and funiculars from 1,20 to 1,50 euro and from 90 minutes to 100 minutes.
