PESARO – Railway bypass, the work is at risk and with it the green ring.
«The request of the Municipality of Pesaro to transform the current railway line in a green infrastructure (trees) and sustainable for pedestrians, bicycles and electric public transport remains unheeded – This is the first conclusion of the regional councilor Andrea Biancani (Pd) after the answer in the Chamber to his question on the Adriatica railway line – The councilor – informs Biancani – confirmed the drafting of a feasibility project by RFi for a new high-speed line to be built further inland compared to the current one on the coast while the latter would instead be intended only for local transport. The hypothesis of canceling the bypass project for the railway line between Pesaro and Fano has therefore been confirmed – he adds – and as regards the financing of 1.8 billion euros already secured with the 2022 budget law, it will be added to the overall budget for the creation of high-speed rail which, as announced in the Chamber, amounts to approximately 5 billion euros”.
«I am increasingly convinced – he concludes – that the construction of a new backward railway line would have times, costs and impacts far greater than the strengthening of the current line through the construction of bypasses. For more than a decade, all of the Marche region, and not just the Pesaro section, would continue to suffer the infrastructural delay that penalizes and marginalizes our territories. The proposal to use the area currently occupied by the railway line for a ‘Green Line’, an urban park with cycle-pedestrian paths and lanes for electric public transport represents an opportunity for the entire Marche coast. I don’t agree with the idea of maintaining two railway lines, the risk is that of compress the green areas even further within them and the inhabited centers. Communication infrastructures have consequences on territories, both those already urbanized or productive, and those with landscape and environmental value, it is necessary to evaluate costs and benefits. Using the current line also means not enhancing this infrastructure from an environmental and tourist point of view, it could be converted into a real urban park along the entire Marche coast. Maintaining both lines means losing an extraordinary opportunity to improve and increase the tourist offer with the greenline, a green sustainability infrastructure that would truly redevelop the cities crossed by the current railway and the rest of the coast”.
