The Fara Parking, which will open to the public today (Saturday 4 May) at 2pm, «enables a new way of accessing and protecting the Upper Town. And it confirms the commitments we had made in terms of landscape.” The mayor underlines this Giorgio Goricutting the multi-storey ribbon which makes a total of 469 new places available to visitors and residents
car. Before this morning’s ceremony, around thirty protesters, including citizens, belonging to the committee No parking Fara and activists of
Last generation, made his voice heard. They display banners and balloons, use trumpets and whistles. Five people sit on the ground, temporarily blocking the entrance to the car park. «Shame, shame»they shout, while eight floors above, on a terrace, they prepare to cut the ribbon.
Retracing the stages of a 20-year construction site, of a work that cost approximately 25 millionGori also replies to them: «They came to the City Council many times, they held demonstrations misinterpreting the meaning of what we were doing. Without realizing that if we had unilaterally resolved the agreement we would have exposed the Municipality to a million-dollar cause». While Johann Breiteneder, CEO of Bergamo Parcheggi, underlines how the construction of the multi-storey represents «much more than a
simple parking. It’s the story of a dream.”
The councilor for public works Marco Brembilla recalls a topical element: despite the complexity of the construction site in terms of “location and conformation, taking into account that micromines were used to crush the rock of the hill and the cableway presupposed maximum attention to suspended loads, we didn’t have any serious injuries». For his part, the councilor for Mobility Stefano Zenoni points out this
inauguration represents a piece within a broader plan, which will modify the accessibility system to the historic center: «There is no Upper Town that locks itself down or one that always remains open, but in my opinion there is an Upper Town with an opening conditioned on a parking offer different from that of recent years».
