FANO «The evaluation of the traffic load induced by the logistics hub to the former sugar factory is greatly underestimated. Based on the road study conducted for a similar settlement, although we don’t know what its use will be, we would be invaded by more than 500 trucks a day, more than 5 times what has been said.” The committee of residents of Via del Ponte enters with equal footing into the debate on the urban destination of the area which for 40 years (until 1992) hosted the sugar beet processing plant, a debate which divided politics on the occasion of the recent definitive adoption of the general master plan.
The last minute amendment
The Seri administration, with an amendment at the last minute by the mayor, eliminating the conversion to a mixed destination resulting from a participatory process, introduced the provision of a food logistics hub (as far as the sector sheet is concerned, which provides for 40 thousand square meters of surface productive, do not mention it). The criticisms focused on the lack of data and studies on traffic smog and noise from the settlement to support the choice of the municipal council, which accepted the request of the new owners of the area (the industrialists Andreani and Paci). A particularly sensitive issue because a coffee roastery has been operating in the area for 8 years (near the primary school) against which a complaint was presented to the authorities in 2023 for the smelly emissions, which according to residents were the cause of heartburn nose and throat, nausea and headache. Councilor Fanesi in the city council reported that 50 to 100 trucks per day will pass through the logistics hub, a figure confirmed by the entrepreneur Paolo Andreani. But the committee reports the transport study carried out for the Cr28 logistics hub planned in Cremona: 123 thousand square meters and 1,600 trucks per day, fully operational, in and out (the data is easily available on the Internet).
The Adriatica highway clogged
With the proportion of one third, the 40 thousand square meters planned for the former sugar factory would handle more than 500 trucks a day, which if they came from the A14 would flow onto Via Mattei but could also travel along the Adriatica state road, which is already suffocated by the traffic. For the Cremona logistics hub, the movement of 1,704 light vehicles and 160 medium vehicles per day was also calculated: compared to Fano 568 and 53, a good part of which would flow onto the state road.
To verify the adequacy of the proportion there is another piece of data, the hires: from a minimum of 500 to a maximum of 1,200 in three work shifts of 400 employees each. The first figure of 500 hired is compatible with the 150 employed indicated for Fano and there would also be a correlation with the number of trucks considering the activity of the logistics center for a single working shift. This would drop to 177 trucks per day, which corresponds to the 50-100 indicated because it must be considered that transit on the roads is double, entering and exiting the former sugar factory area. Above all, this transit would be concentrated in 8-10 hours and not distributed over 24 hours. Therefore, on average, a truck would not pass every quarter of an hour, as Andreani said, but rather one every 3 minutes or 20 every hour. From this comparison, the overload on the area’s roads and the anachronism of the choice of a production area within the city are evident.
«Choose a suitable site»
«In Cremona – notes the spokesperson of the committee, Maddalena Filippetti – they have planned the logistics center near the motorway toll booth, where these settlements must be located. For the owners, the mixed use including residential, foreseen before their request, would be more profitable. Above all, the right to health cannot be contrasted with the right to work. By moving the work to a suitable site, jobs would still be created.”
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