We receive and publish the letter from the Piazza Saffi-Villapiana Road Committee.
“Doctor Russo, in preparing to write this examination (it could be considered a coupon), I was forced to reopen your diary for the seventh time. Unfortunately I cannot remember what is written in there, as I said in a hearing in commission, in there there are “words words words” to paraphrase Mina’s song.
However, you presented yourself to the people of Savona with the program written in the diary and I must refer to that. The fact that in the elections they chose you to administer the municipality of the city of Savona will have made you ask a rhetorical question “But will it be true glory? It’s all thanks to me”? I hope that you have managed to give yourself an answer.
However, I want to remind you that the position you now hold as “mayor pro tempore” is not a life position that allows you to rule as you please, disrespecting those you administer. I believe that your role is that of an agent who must administer the Savona company, ergo the “municipality” as required by its principals (the citizens of Savona) according to the laws, rules and regulations of the local authorities.
Now getting back to the bomb “that is, the agenda” 3 years have passed (I remind you) and I have not seen the improvement of the entry-exit from the port, the Campus has disappeared from the horizon, I have not seen the accessibility to the city improved for the tourism, the problem of pet-friendly cities has not been addressed. Indeed it was carefully hidden; it is a (highly divisive) problem that must be addressed with respect for everyone and with great caution. Let’s reopen the shutters, a pure utopia, has become let’s close other shutters. I had no perception of a new form of work.
Now let’s move on to the city road system which is the cardiovascular system of the city. The pro-tempore mayor Berruti had thought of ruining part of the road system in the Villapiana neighborhood, condemning the neighborhood to a dormitory and to the depreciation of the properties. The “pro-tempore” mayor Marco Russo took care of ruining the downtown district, closing a new piece of Corso Italia, forcing the citizens of half the city (the north center) to wander around Piazza Mameli, and admire the shutters of Via Niella (traffic is so slow that you can admire the facades of the buildings that line the street.
After two and a half years of reign, you entrusted a pre-study of the PUMS to a specialized company. In the specific assignment, the terms with which the study must be carried out have been set, which are in effect: the highway code, the guidelines for urban sustainable mobility plans Ministerial Decree 4 August 2014 and the Ministerial Decree 05/11/2001 regulations functional and geometric for road construction.
You will certainly know that the city of Savona in its central part is organized like Turin or if we want to be more precise like a Roman castrum, the main streets the cardo and the decumanus; via Paleocapa the decumanus, Corso Italia the cardo.
If the main intersection is blocked, the road system collapses. In the meantime you had the unfortunate idea of once again pedestrianizing part of Corso Italia and you reiterated this recently in the newspapers. This is a political decision that the company that will study the PUMS will have to take into account and which will force it to invent solutions that are pernicious for the roads and consequently the lives of the people of Savona.
You will certainly know what the opinions on road traffic are of the Piazza Saffi Villapiana Road Traffic Committee, which has sent you projects several times and which I will propose here in a succinct manner: construction of car parks, bypass between Villapiana and the sea, crossing del Letimbro at via Acqui, connection between the Savona motorway toll booth and the port of Savona with a link road that does not affect ordinary traffic.
And now I add the reopening of C.so Italia. I understand that the Centro-Darsena district sent you a detailed written document; it is a real traffic plan on the streets and detailed in execution times. Naturally the first request is the reopening of Corso Italia and the second the construction of the connecting link between the Savona motorway toll booth and the Port.
I hereby ask you to be put in official contact with the company that is collecting the data for the preparation of the PUMS.
Kind regards Piazza Saffi-Villapiana Traffic Committee
Procopius Josephus
