MESSINA – “Just a great start”. The City Council, with 18 votes in favour, approved the resolution of the urban plan for sustainable mobility including the sector plans, pedestrian mobility, cycling mobility, local public transport and road safety, the strategic environmental assessment (VAS) and the impact assessment environmental (Vinca). And, in a joint note, the mayor Federico Basile and the deputy mayor and councilor Salvatore Mondello express their satisfaction.
The mayor and deputy mayor highlight: “A process planned starting from 2020 with the De Luca Council and with a first adoption of the executive of Palazzo Zanca in 2021, and completion of the process during 2024 with approval by the Region of Vas, to which are added the Parking Plan approved in 2019 and the General Urban Traffic Plan approved in 2022. The city now boasts a virtuous triad of strategic and implementation planning tools on mobility”.
“With these important Plans, in a medium-long term time horizon – continue Basile and Mondello – Messina develops a system vision of the city, of urban mobility and of the mitigation and adaptation measures to be implemented, proposing the achievement of sustainability objectives environmental, social and economic. The objectives? Accessibility, safety, quality of life and environmental protection. This is a tool that helps create an urban context in which every citizen feels welcomed and safe.”
“Many actions to be implemented on roads and public spaces”
“The approval of the Plan is certainly a great result but above all a great beginning”, continues the deputy mayor and councilor for urban mobility Mondello. “There are many actions to be implemented in the short, medium and long term. The plan will act as guidelines for the implementation of all interventions on roads and public spaces, even simple maintenance, in order to create – explains Mondello – a synergy between infrastructures, services and policies for the enhancement of sustainable mobility”.
“We want to thank all the city councilors who have allowed the achievement of a great goal for the city of Messina, overcoming useless divisions linked to logics that have nothing to do with good politics”, conclude Mayor Basile and Deputy Mayor Mondello.
