MASSA – «The CAI section of Massa (Massa-Carrara) was disconcerted by the administration’s choice to close the Via Alta Tambura to transit. This bewilderment arises from both the content and the method adopted. The Cai section of Massa has never held back from constructive discussions with public bodies and has always maintained a proactive attitude in all circumstances: we would have done so on this occasion too. Instead we learned from the Municipality’s website that everything had been decided, without any interlocution.” Thus begins the association’s note which comments on the municipal administration’s decision to ban the transit and parking of motor vehicles in the Renara area. The measure recently adopted to regulate summer transit in the Guadine area is active only on weekends starting from 29th and 30th June, every Saturday and Sunday in July and August, 14th and 15th August and the first weekend in September. So it is only active on weekends from 8.30am to 5.30pm. The rest of the days are free to anyone and there are no limitations. The change in the ordinance lies in the fact that on weekends only the cars of residents, domiciled and authorized people who display the pass can now pass through.
«As regards the content – highlights the CAI – we would like to point out that the problem of access to the river had already been addressed a few years ago during the participatory process of the River Contract. From the discussion, specific actions were established, agreed with the administration, to address the issue in a constructive way. Among the agreed actions, it was never agreed to block the road, but to establish an adequate parking ban and to establish a “public shuttle bus with an itinerary that responds to the needs of the population of mountain villages and is useful for limiting attendance”. Furthermore, it was planned to create “Information campaigns aimed at users of the Renara Torrent and Frigido River in collaboration between the Municipality and associations”. The coordinator of these actions within the River Contract was the Municipality of Massa. The actions identified were the result of a serious and participatory discussion which saw citizens, associations and local authorities contributing with ideas, experiences and technical skills. Two years have passed since the signing of the contract in Fiume, which also saw us in the Italian Alpine Club and there is no trace of these actions, like all the others.”
«The administration’s current decision effectively draws a line on those actions, cancels months of collective work, contradicts itself regarding the commitments made, debases a participatory process that cost public money. We want to underline that effectively blocking an access route to the main hiking, speleological and environmental paths of our territory goes in stark contrast to what was stated by Dr. Billi of the Institute for Tourist Studies of Florence in his recent hearing in the tourism council commission : the tourist strength of our territory is represented by the beauty of nature which must be coordinated and developed with the marine part also through better transport logistics. It is useless to entrust the studies to experts in the sector – concludes the CAI – if the exact opposite is then done, effectively denying the attendance of a part of our territory considered unique at a national level”.
