The president of the neighborhood, Stefano Poderi, has been “hammering” him once a month recently. Ditto the residents of the road and the hundreds of cyclists and scooter riders who every day risked menisci and ankles by passing over potholes. Then the mothers, who took their children by bike to the nearby nursery in Via Milano. In the end the councilor Riccardo Pozzi gave in. And achieving a sort of miracle in the history of city asphalting, he managed to transform the lunar and pothole-ravaged surface of via Spoleto, the road that connects via Milano with the main road, into a billiard table. Goodbye potholes, now the wheels roll like on velvet. All this close to the elections? No: to tell the truth the asphalting finished last Friday, it started on Wednesday. In short, as they say, unsuspecting times.
The fact is that after twenty or thirty years (now people no longer remember) of asphalt as a local country road, Via Spoleto has once again become a road worthy of the name. Deep potholes and depressions for an era created daily risks, whether personal or related to the damage they could do to vehicles that deteriorated.
Stefano Poderi, 74 years old, president (for four years) of the Soria, Tombaccia and S.Maria delle Fabbrecce district says: “A month ago I took three residents directly to councilor Pozzi’s office. And we told them that this is not could go on. Because in the meantime, the mothers and grandmothers who had to use that road to take their children to school or out and about called me practically every day and in turn I hammered the Municipality. Alla had also received complaints In the end we kindly cornered him, and we succeeded. But I want to say that the collaboration with Pozzi has always been profitable, and at the service of the citizens”. Word to Pozzi, who explains: “It’s true that Via Spoleto was private, but it had continuous public use, hundreds of cyclists and scooter riders passed through it. It was becoming too dangerous a situation. So we decided to include the road in the asphalting plan And at this point, given the situation, I would say that the Municipality should commit to purchasing the road, to definitively resolve the issue for the future.” Il ‘Carlino’ had written about the case on 30 March 2022, also speaking with the councilor for Operations, Enzo Belloni, who at the time had however raised the white flag: “Being a private place – Belloni told ‘Carlino’ – it is not that the Municipality can asphalt it. The road was already on the list, years ago, I too know that that is one of the ugliest stretches of the city, but then we realized that the property is private until the owner gives it to us , I don’t see any solutions. If he gives it up, we’ll asphalt it. I know the residents had made a commitment to talk to him, but I have no updates.”
Now the “update” has finally arrived. And it is a sign of the fact that if a neighborhood president does his duty, conveying the people’s needs to politicians, and a councilor listens to him, and also does his duty, the problems are resolved. Now all that’s missing is the signage.
