Ferrara Getting into the car can become a real nightmare and Ferrara motorists know this well. Kilometer-long queuesconstant slowdowns, parking spaces unobtainable. To drive in Ferrara you need not only concentration and “a thousand eyes”, but a lot of it lots of patience. Anyone who decides to travel around the city by car must expect that they will waste minutes and minutes stuck in traffic: students, workers, those who have to go to the doctor or go shopping. Calmness and understanding are needed to avoid being overwhelmed, as often happens, in a vortex of nervousness that can spoil the mood. Green traffic light at the first light of dawn (it would be better to say yellow and intermittently given that some lanterns are not yet active at that time) and smooth traffic, but after 7.30 the hell on the road begins. Parents who they accompany their children to school and commuters heading to the company or office to clock in. The result: long queues of cars and congested traffic. Mobility changes from neighborhood to neighborhood and based on the time of day. As regards the north-eastern entrance to the city (via Copparo so to speak), it is well known that before the initial ringing of the bell cars crowd via Bacchelli. Once the “old” road system has been restored, the snake has also returned. Now that traffic is once again regulated by traffic lights and it is possible to turn left onto via Azzo Novello, it happens almost daily that you travel along the stretch at walking pace and find queues already on via Pannonius, between the roundabouts with via dei Calzolai and via Gramicia. If it then rains (a condition that causes problems for the average Ferrara driver), there is the possibility that they will extend further along Via Guido Carli.
Another block
Once the first heavy traffic jams caused by entering school have been resolved, the streets are used by the last ones employees and workers who reach the workplace, with more or less agility depending on where it is located. Jungle of cars and congestion even at the exit, between 6pm and 8pm depending on the road axis. When traffic could flow linearly, it is the traffic that disturbs a peaceful journey maintenance works of the road surface. And between spring and summer there will be numerous interventions, considering an asphalt plan worth 2.78 million euros which has already started. Flooring and subsequent scarification work asphalting it was built in recent days in via Ferraresi, from the Fire Brigade barracks to the beginning of the overpass. It is in this section that the flow temporarily slowed down considerably, given the inhibition of two-way traffic and the manual regulation of traffic. A problem that the administration had taken into account: «We are aware of the inconveniences that are going to be created for the citizens – admitted the Councilor for Public Works Andrea Maggi no later than a few days ago during an electoral event – but without interventions there can be no changes». However, it is not excluded that motorists have made some complaints in the secrecy of their cars. The fact is that the works in via Ferraresi are already finished. Always current, then, i serious practicability problems of via Bologna due to the close traffic lights and the level crossing, which make traveling on the axis a real ordeal. Not least is the search for street parking. According to a survey by the parking app Parclick, Italians waste an average of 30 minutes a day (up to 45) to find a space. Even in Ferrara, especially during the morning, it is common practice for those who want to park on the street to drive around in an attempt to locate an area where they can leave their car. Blessed are the offices with reserved parking spaces, but those who, for example, work in the city center must budget for getting lost in a maze of parking lots occupied, where finding a free space appears to be a challenge. Few places or too many cars? This is also why many commuters decide to carry their bicycle or scooter in the trunk to cover the route parking-work without the worry of where to park the car. Unavailable parking spaces and long queues: it would be good to remember that mobility also affects the life quality.
