Ultimately, it will be the citizens of Cagliari who will decide, with their own unquestionable judgment, whether the project will truly be revolutionary for mobility , as some say, or whether it will simply be an "outdated" and useless project, as others claim. While waiting for the completion of the Repubblica-Matteotti line of the surface metro, amid delays, doubts, and controversy, the debate between supporters and critics is heating up.

Pierluigi Mannino, leader of the FdI group, sparked the debate, citing a transportation study comparing the number of passengers carried by buses every hour in the central lane of Via Roma with that generated by the metro: over 4,500 on buses versus just over 1,000 on the metro. "The Cagliari metro, a modern tram, is a project from over 30 years ago. After all this time, the issues"—the coexistence of buses and metro, the construction of an intermodal hub, the impact on traffic—"have not been resolved, and the dust swept under the rug 30 years ago is now resurfacing more clearly."

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