A flexible tool, which will allow us to intervene over time on all the critical issues present in the area. Peba is born in Pescara.
The Peba, approved in recent days by the City Council, tackles in an organic way the problem of access to all territorial structures of people with disabilities, understood in the broadest way, but also of those who move around the city with particular needs, those that the elderly and mothers with strollers can have.
“A flexible tool because it already looks to the future – explains the councilor for Mobility Luigi Albore Mascia – that is, to that certain moment of development which will be constituted by the birth of the great Pescara: our plan for the elimination of architectural barriers is therefore already prepared to be integrated with those of the municipalities of Montesilvano and Spoltore. And we believe this is an added value compared to the need to have a broad vision of the territory. Also because Pescara is a city where, for various reasons, study, work or entertainment, people who come from many nearby centers and also from outside the province gravitate, people who must find an answer to their access needs”.
The approved project proposal, and contained in a 180-page document, provides for a micro-zoning that divides the city into eight areas: Lungomare Nord – Centro, Colli-Nord, Colle del Telegrafo, Portanuova, Lungomare Sud-Pineta Dannunziana, via Tiburtina – southern suburbs, airport, New Year’s Eve and takes into account both the provisions of the urban sustainable mobility plan and the local public transport offer. Also in relation to the population density of the different areas of the city.
“The main contents – underlines councilor Albore Mascia – were presented and shared, during meetings, also with interest-bearing associations present in the area. It is a document that could be further enriched in content, but which certainly goes to work on the building industry that dates back over time in our territory, which will need to be modified with even major interventions. For this reason, during the approval, precisely those amendments were included which will allow the establishment, both in the three-year and annual planning, of an allocation of funds dedicated precisely to the removal of architectural barriers”.
“This is a document that arrives after a thirty-year wait – states the president of the Social Policies Commission, Maria Luigia Montopolino – and which will allow us to continue working on the city in the future, adapting it to the evolution of the social and territorial context”.
