Gate and cameras in the Ferrara La Nuova Ferrara velostation

Ferrara A motorized gate, an application to download onto your mobile phone to open it and use the service, a series of surveillance cameras. Waiting for the completion of velostationwith the second excerpt which still seems far from being started, Ferrara Yours runs for cover on security problem of the only functioning part: the bicycle storage. As reported several times by La Nuova, the covered depot of the new velostation in via Felisatti – which aims to replace what was the enormous open-air depot-parking in front of the railway station – being completely unattended and even more hidden, it has become a new first choice basin where bicycle thieves they can go fishing. According to the technical-explanatory report, the adjustments will cost over 53 thousand euros. The bulk of the expenditure – around 30 thousand euros – will be allocated to the purchase and installation of motorized and automated access gates. The first, the largest one which will be used for access by bike users, will be managed via a dedicated app and will allow access by bike. Will be located on the north side of the depot. The second gate will instead be a pedestrian turnstile, with a central bollard and two lateral wings. The intervention involves not only the closure of the depot, but also the installation of video surveillance cameraswhich constitute the second highest item of expenditure (just over 11 thousand euros), so that entrances and exits – and movements with bikes – take place under the gaze of an electronic eye, capable first and foremost of dissuading any ill-intentioned people and secondly in any case to allow thesubsequent identification in case of conduct contrary to the law. Ferrara Tua has already drawn up the timetable for the intervention, which should be implemented during the month of August (most of the time will be absorbed by the installation of the new electrical system), in order to make the service operational by the month of September . This, at least, is the goal. The intervention will be partially financed (just under 17 thousand euros) from ministerial funds of the “National experimental program for sustainable mobility home-school home-work“, while the rest will be borne by Ferrara Tua. There are more uncertainties about the second stage of work for the completion of the velostation. At the moment it is still in the planning phase and concerns the redevelopment of the existing building, owned by Italian railway network (the public company better known as RFI), through the expansion and reorganization of the spaces, with the inclusion of a reception and tourist information office, a luggage storage and a bike repair shop. The delay is due – we read again in Ferrara Tua’s technical report – to the failure to return the goods to state Railways of the building to be redeveloped by the previous manager.