Benevento
“We waited for the Administration to take charge of the critical issues of our neighborhood, but all our expectations were shattered by the inaction of the Authority”.
The lawyer Luigi Marino, president of the “Centro Storico” neighborhood committee of Benevento, does not mince words to once again turn the spotlight on a series of critical issues found in the center.
The committee therefore requests “that the Municipality of Benevento clarify why the entrance gates to the Historic Center are not activated. Let us therefore expose the impeding reason which cannot rest, of course, on the protection of any group of people to the detriment of the liveability and safety of the citizens who live in the Historic Centre. Why, then, despite having established the ZTL, having purchased cameras, the gates are not activated? Is it legitimate to ignore the documented and repeated exhortations of this Committee on this point?”.
And again, the area committee points out that “The paving of the historic centre, in several alleys and open spaces, is disconnected and exposes members to danger; there are many dilapidated buildings, not maintained, open and, therefore, a possible meeting place for ill-intentioned people, which (dis)adorn our neighborhood. The Municipality should proceed with a mapping of those that represent a danger and operate to the detriment or, at least, issue the urgent acts within its power;
the area of Via Umberto I needs greater attention.”
A reminder then to verify compliance with noise emissions. “Furthermore, in the same area, in the middle of the buffer zone, citizens inform us that some furnishings would be left covered with sheets on public land; Piazza Piano di Corte and Piazza Arechi II are, too often, occupied by unauthorized cars which pass by undisturbed (without any valid permit) and occupy the already limited parking spaces intended for residents (we are referring to those in Piazza Piano di Corte given that Piazza Arechi II, despite the requests made to this effect, parking areas for residents have never been authorized).
There is, again, the issue of Via Manciotti between the collapse of a cornice (with a barrier that delimits the perimeter of the fall and which, in fact, also closes the alley to vehicular transit), the new pedestrian area (but it should not have been limited during the period of execution of the paving works in the area adjacent to the Arch of Trajan?) and other construction sites in the ‘outlet alleys’ (with unmarked trucks blocking the passage), it was not understood how the residents should exit and return to home. Bear in mind that, in that alley – Marino remarks – there are many disabled people. It is imperative to restore the concrete viability of this road.
We hope that the Municipality of Benevento will, this time, take action and follow up on our reports. The period is peculiar and, who knows, we could even be proven wrong and overwhelmed by unexpected activism on the part of the organisation”.
