“Deadly cruise traffic overwhelms a residential street in Porto Corsini” is the subject of the agenda filed by Alvaro Ancisi, group leader of Lista per Ravenna which will be discussed shortly in council commissions no. 8 “Mobility/Traffic” and n. 9 “Porto”, to be subsequently discussed and voted on in the City Council.
Ancisi summarizes the situation: “The laying of the foundation stone of the new cruise terminal is imminent in Porto Corsini, a sort of airport station to be built on 180 thousand square meters of beach. More than a celebration, it will be a mourning for via Molo Sanfilippo, located on the side of the Candiano canal, 700 meters of narrow roadway without a cycle/pedestrian path, on which the thousands of vehicles serving the terminal intersect, arriving and departing ( buses, trucks, tankers, taxis, NCC), in addition to the approximately 600 thousand a year who use the ferry to and from Marina di Ravenna, as well as a thousand motorhomes heading to or leaving the nearby camper area. An infernal bedlam at uncontrolled speed.”
The group leader reports the appeal that the residents made to the municipal administration: “Dozens of complaints made in all forms, both written and telephone, to the Municipality, the Municipal Police and even the Prefect, bounced off a rubber wall. What use is the 30 km/h limit without providing adequate slowing down and speed control systems? They are all in a rat race to save time or earn more money. Why does the municipal administration continue to postpone any solution or even partial remedy to this problem? Fifteen years have passed since the cruise terminal came into operation, but even then an alternative road system to via Molo Sanfilippo was promised which would bypass the town. Now that the Terminal has become gigantic, the traffic from the ring road on our road has multiplied enormously, without worrying about any countermeasures that at least respect the right to life of its inhabitants, 70% of whom are over 65. The others fled from Porto Corsini, so as not to risk their lives, not to breathe poison and not to become deaf”.
Ancisi explains that “taking up and developing the requests made by the Mobility/Viability service of the Municipality of Ravenna to the Port System Authority already in February 2021, reiterated on 10 February 2023 in the Services Conference which approved the project of the new cruise terminal, but largely neglected until now, the agenda proposes that the City Council address the mayor and his council with the direction to work to achieve three objectives: identify an alternative route in via Molo Sanfilippo for leaving the country of vehicles heading to the cruise terminal; prepare a new stretch of road alongside the Candiano canal, starting from the entrance to the town (see the yellow arrow in the photo above), which partially lifts via Molo Sanfilippo from the current two-way traffic of its oppressive vehicular traffic; proceed immediatelyinterventions to mitigate the speed of this vehicular traffic (control of compliance with the 30 km/h limit; strengthen speed limit warning signs and introduce optical and/or audible devices and road surface treatments such as vertical and horizontal approach signs, noise strips and other treatments surfaces that produce sounds or vibrations. Finally – concludes Ancisi – carry out interventions on the geometry of the road provided for by the art. 23 allowed in residential streets such as Via Molo Sanfilippo, despite its improper use as a ring road”.
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