“School is about to end, declares a press release from Faenza Eco-logica, after a school year during which the (few) existing school streets (pedestrian zones in front of the schools during entry-exit times) have never worked.
In via Castellani (Gulli school) and in via Donatini (Panda school) there are only formally transit bans on vertical signs but in fact no one respects them.
The Municipality, attacks Faenza Eco-logica, tolerates daily violations by motoristseven at high speed, and the police don’t show up.
In front of the Panda ramp, on the school street in via Donatinisome uncivilized people even knocked down a fixed barrier on the ground to park in front of the kindergarten entrance, blocking any escape route even for emergency vehicles.
The school asks in vain for interventions but no one listens.
Is it a question of funds or is there a lack of political will?, asks the Faenza association.
The mayor, the councilor for police and safety Massimo Bosi and the councilor for sustainable mobility Luca Ortolani, can they take care of this problem?
The Municipality – continues Faenza Eco-logica – wrote and adopted the Pumsalready in 2021 spending money on consultancy. So, however, the plan is waste paper. No timetable respected, no connections between cycle paths, the main streets still submerged by cars, when they should have become ZTL and without parking.
The school roads therefore, on paper, were used to pass the PUMs, but then to obtain funds the existing ones were abandoned and no new school streets were added.
The most unfortunate thing is that these two school streets, in front of the Gulli and the Panda, were conquered with difficulty, with collections of signatures and grassroots mobilization, in the face of pollutants and risks to which the children were subjected. Their parents had gotten used to them and began to understand their value and respect them.
Now we see instead a reflux of civilization and a wave of arrogance, sweeping away every hard-won pedestrianized centimeter and It is precisely the institutions that are the first to take no interest and favor this reflux.
Yet – they continue from Faenza Eco-logica – we insist and we ask the municipality for answers: we want to know why you don’t send policemen or Auser operators (or others for them) to check the school roads.
The Region allocates funds for school roads. In 2021-2023, three tenders were issued which also include funding for school roads but our municipality has not presented any project to finance pedestrian areas in front of schools, reimburse volunteers and so on.
The municipality of Faenza – concludes the Faenza association – therefore participates in the next tenders with a project to restore existing school roads and increase their numberthus respecting the promises of the PUMS.
