The future of the Italian railways will not be made up only of trains and tracks, not only of Freccerosse and stations. The new managing director of FS, Renato Mazzoncini, chosen by Matteo Renzi himself to put an end to the disagreements at the top and the sleepy and quarrelsome railway management of Michele Mario Elia, thinks big and wants to make the State Railways the engine of the whole Italian mobility. In his plans, as he revealed in an interview with "la Repubblica", there is the expansion of FS in the field of roads and large infrastructures and in the field of local transport. In addition to strengthening the national and local railway service, its objectives are Anas, the company led by Gianni Vittorio Armani that manages the country's major road infrastructures, and Atac, the Roman municipalized local transport company. been on the brink for some time.
“We need Anas – admits Mazzoncini – because it is a very important company, with a lot of problems, but strategic. But Anas doesn't have the technology we have with Rfi. Together we can create a mobility hub”. As for Atac in Rome, Mazzoncini is convinced that he can replicate the recovery and relaunch of Florence, which earned him Renzi's appreciation: "I don't think it's complicated to recover it". At the next administration of the Capital, the Fs will therefore apply to participate in the tender for the management of the Atac.
Renzi certainly likes Mazzoncini's dynamism and modernization plans, but he doesn't like too strong boyars and has always had an eye also for the new number one of Anas, the young Gianni Vittorio Armani who promises to bring about the miracle of the century really completing the Salerno-Reggio Calabria. This is why the governance of a possible FS-Anas marriage remains to be seen and there are those who say that it will be played out precisely on the Mazzoncini-Armani duel. Which of the two will be called to command?
