Molfetta: The Madonna della Rosa neighborhood committee: «Dangerous roads. We need solutions”

“We want to make known the serious situation of isolation and danger that afflicts our neighborhood due to the roads which have become extremely dangerous.”

“Despite the provisions of the General Regulatory Plan, which envisaged the connection of the neighborhood to the city of Molfetta via roads and bridges that would have crossed the Lama Martina, these infrastructures, although included in the three-year plan of Public Works, have never been built. In the meantime, to allow motorists and pedestrians to cross the Schiva Zappa Bridge safely on 1 March 2018, the Neighborhood Committee registered a note (n. 13799) to the Municipality, transmitting a feasibility study for the creation of a cycle/pedestrian path in Via Vecchia Bitonto, now Via Beniamino Finocchiaro, drawn up and signed free of charge by qualified technicians resident in the neighborhood itself”.

“With resolution no. 85 of 03/07/2018 “SUBJECT: Creation of the “Ponte Schiva Zappa” cycle/pedestrian path. Acknowledgment of the project idea and feasibility study and to acknowledge that the intervention in question – having a total cost estimated at €1,000,000.00 – is included in the Three-Year Programming OO.PP. of the 2018/2020 Authority approved by the City Council and resolution no. 181 of 24 September 2021, the Municipality took note of the definitive project and gave direction for the executive planning”.

“This scenario changes completely on 22 April 2024 on the occasion of the discussion of the Lama Martina redevelopment project where the refusal by the Basin Authority to build a theater in the riverbed, carousels for children, platforms for the disabled and On the other hand, the Schiva Zappa project, modified without our knowledge and without taking into account the two resolutions, was also rejected, frustrating all the efforts made by the Neighborhood Committee and its technicians, leaving the neighborhood without adequate roads connecting to the city ​​center. It is worth remembering that at present two cars and a pedestrian are not allowed to cross at the same time.”

“When it rains, a dinghy would be needed to cross it. Yet in this regard we understand that there was a previous intervention to solve this problem using public money but the problem has not been solved. The situation of the coplanar sixteenth is much worse bis has become to all intents and purposes a bumpy ring road, full of dangerous depressions due to tree roots, without a pavement and public lighting of unprecedented danger”.

“For these reasons the Neighborhood Committee asks for a new discussion table with your Lordships to put an end to this unfortunate situation, also underlining that while our willingness to collaborate with this Administration remains, it can only underline that patience is running out “.