Funivie e cable cars represent a context a medium-high risk, with the possibility of high risk in peak hours, exactly like the means of the public transport. This is the main observation that the Scientific technical committee sent at Regions, asking for a review of the protocol developed at the end of November for the reopening of the ski resorts. For experts, it must be more adherent to the system of division into bands required by current legislation. Translated, it means that the possibility of returning to skiing is currently foreseen for January 7, it could be postponed to the end of the month.
The Cts in fact starts from a premise: despite the measures taken have resulted in a slowdown of the growth of infections, “the circulation of the virus remains elevated”And, therefore, it is“ still necessary adopt the utmost caution“, With strict compliance with the measures to prevent contagion, starting from distancing, even in”open spaces“. Any reopening of the plants must therefore be preceded by a “revaluation of the epidemiological situation “without which it will not be possible to proceed.
Not only. In the meeting with the representatives of the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces, technicians and experts pointed out another aspect: cable cars and gondola lifts represent a medium-high risk context, with the possibility of high risk during peak hours, just like the vehicles of the public transport. To allow its use, therefore, “an effective reorganization of the ski lifts ”which must be accompanied by a series of“ prevention and collective protection“. Hence the decision to send a series of remarks to the protocol.
In the first place, experts say, the measures must be ‘dropped’ into the reality of division in swathes of Italy: in a region in yellow zone the plants will be able to operate with an occupation of 100% on the chairlifts and del 50% on gondola lifts and cable cars (as proposed by the Regions), with use mandatory mask. In the orange ones they will have to travel all to the 50% of the capacity and always with the obligation of the mask, while in the red ones they must remain closed. Furthermore, in the orange areas, the restrictions provided for mobility: that is, it will not be possible to move from one municipality to another.
As for the proposal of a maximum daily ceiling to the sale of skipass, the Cts stresses the need for them to be identified “criteria eveni ”for their definition, which take into account not only the daily fee but also of those weekly e seasonal, therefore with a mechanism of booking. And we also need a system that allows you to do forecasts on flow management for the control of the ski pass and, above all, suitable measures to avoid gatherings at the start of the lifts.
Now the ball it passes back to the Regions and a new meeting of the Scientific Technical Committee is scheduled for mid-next week but it is unlikely that you get to one solution for January 7. Already in recent days Valeria Ghezzi, president ofNational association of cableway operators, had defined that date as “utopia“. “With such a compromised health situation – he explained – it does not make sense think about reopening the plants. If the contagion drops we can hypothesize an opening between 20 and 30 January, not before. Now we must aim to have a protocol, which is firm at the CTS, then we will think about identifying a certain date for the reopening ”.
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