The asphalting of roads is always a decisive move for any public administration. Because everyone approves of it. The Municipality of Pesaro knows this concept so well that in the last five years it has spent no less than 10 million euros to asphalt the roads and thus cover the potholes. He didn’t hesitate even for a moment to resort to million-dollar mortgages to put bitumen in the holes. And for the new mayor Biancani it is still not enough. We need even more asphalt. The former councilor for Fare Riccardo Pozzi says: “In the last legislature we paid particular attention to the problem of streets and their safety, also asphalting roads for public use but not owned by us. This is because many fragments of land dating back to ancient subdivisions for the construction of the buildings have in the meantime become real roads with passage open to the public. In those cases we did not ignore it by passing on the burden of asphalting to the private sector. We always decided to purchase those pieces of land to make them public and therefore ensure constant maintenance starting from the asphalting which otherwise would not have been done in some points of via Giolitti which in the maps appeared to be private, in this way we managed to keep the streets of Pesaro in order and safe obviously the cycle paths where a pothole can represent an even more important problem than the dips in the roads for cars”.
But not everything has been resolved. Strada San Nicola has been closed since time immemorial due to landslides. The Municipality does not intervene because the land is private and therefore it is up to the owners to pay the company that fixes the numerous landslides along the road. But the owners just don’t think about doing it. Not only. Having appealed to the civil court, the expert appointed by the judge established that according to the legislation, private individuals are responsible for the costs.
“This decision – commented the former councilor Pozzi – made it impossible for the Municipality to carry out any intervention on the slopes in order to be able to reopen the road. For this reason we tried to bypass the problem by opening negotiations with the owners of fragmented roads that allow us to still connect San Nicola road even if no house located in that direction has ever been isolated, we have never held back in looking for solutions to guarantee the usability of the roads and their safety that throughout the legislature we proceeded with the purchase of private roads if there was intense public use and the need to ensure safe circulation of both cars and cyclists along the cycle paths. And I believe or at least hope that this can be the case also replicated in the new legislature”.
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