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And if things had gone well?

Ex - Palagianello, June 2017

We all had no idea seemed almost too evil to continue to have the rail center of the country. There were those who had hoped the presence of one or more air passages and pedestrian underpass at the center of the country. Unfortunately the reality has proved much more dramatic. Railways, twenty years ago, we won and completed as they saw the doubling of the line that connects the capital of our region to be made in Taranto and Palagianello a second track alongside the first.

Palagianello now no longer exists. Or rather, it was split in two small villages, castles and Crosses. Railways went over the draft alongside: destroying what they built another bridge, historic, stone, gutting the underside of the urban layout of the network and everything to make sure the path in the ravine of San Biagio and that of the fork, defacing both the first and second. The "buffer zone", ie the area around the district to double the work required to access the media, was so broad that caused the destruction of vast areas of greenery of the canyon and the old country. The soles of capers have disappeared from the eastern ridge, the plans of human settlement along the ravine have a photographic memory or on tape, all around the bridge is a structure of reinforced concrete.

The number of trains passing over a decade and a half on the route Bari-Taranto has increased considerably, their passage at high speed caused the collapse, due to vibration, several houses along Via Roma and Via Matteotti, and also in some areas' interior, especially those of older construction.

Castle and crosses not longer have a central meeting place, the old, Piazza Roma, was sacrificed to double rail. A large and reasonably level place to stroll and find yourself no longer exists. Yet it would be really nice walk today, without much noise as before: electric cars now moving in increasing numbers. They are quieter than those now old, with the engine, and do not pollute. Real jewels.

The goods yard south of the country has never been realized. Our craftsmen have become poorer, had hoped that the railway pass close to their settlements, and now they do not work hardly. I also hope for the vanished Freight.

trains that stop at the Castle and Crosses are few and what happens is simply a pause to allow the engines. Do not take them anymore. The bus service has compensated for the presence of evil doubling rail presence there has really helped. For coaches is not very convenient to reach two villages each with a small access. Castle and crosses are, each of the two, like two blind alleys, closed two roads.

The village life, the vibrations of the train apart, dozing a lot more than that characterized Palagianello in the last century. Castle and Cross count with about 3,800 inhabitants. For those afraid of excessive vibration to the passage of high speed trains which cause damage to homes, but also for lack of prospects, in many, if they are gone, especially young people, because no one would dream of investing in areas almost completely cut off from the domestic market. Castle more than Crosses: if the village is, overall, close to State 7, artery of some importance, the Castle has in front of the provincial Mottola. The future of this land no longer exists.

If only twenty years ago we had blocked the plan of the railways alongside the existing rail cutting in half Palagianello, if only we had shown a bit 'capacity to respond to that plan Now Palagianello would be a single country, with the railway to the south but not in the middle of the urban area, near the industrial area, possibly with a satisfactory development of small and medium-sized companies with many jobs.

But today, June 23, 2017, is late to cry over spilled milk. We need only think of carpenters for work on contact reinforcement of the structure of the houses that still stand if we want to stay in the Castle and Crosses or flee, as many have done already.