PESARO The weekend has been uncertain for some time and needs to be archived but there was no shortage of protests over the wild break at the seaside. And once again they concentrated on the eastern terminal stretch of the Trieste seafront, from Lungogenica towards Fano with scooters fined by the local police after they had occupied the stalls for disabled people in order to get to the beach. And there has been no shortage of protests via social media because those who pay the consequences are the disabled who find themselves having to deal with a wild invasion and not finding space for their vehicles.
The phone call
«I was forced – explains a lady – to inform the local police due to the absolute lack of respect of many, who rule the roost in defiance of the rules. Usually my partner uses a numbered and reserved car park right in front of the Gala hotel, but as often happens, the car park is always improperly occupied by swimmers’ cars while on Saturday there were scooters. In the meantime, while I was waiting for the local police to arrive, another exasperated lady turned to the officers to check other stalls in the last stretch of Levante before reaching the concessions, because in this case too the scooters were everywhere, occupying places that instead must be left free for disabled people. I believe you have to be really reckless to invade pavements, sections of the cycle path and entire car parks with specific assignments with scooters and motorbikes, taking away space from those who can’t get to the beach easily.”
The local police intervened immediately and did what they had to. Over a dozen scooters were fined, some in double rows, others which also occupied two spaces reserved for disabled people, and the intervention of a tow truck was also necessary for removal. It will not be either the first or the last report of wild parking on the seafront: in fact, more and more people from Pesaro often find themselves forced to report cars or two-wheelers that are prohibited or parked in reserved spaces to the dedicated Whatsapp number of the local police. A problem that has also reached Massimo Domenicucci of the Piattaforma solidale association: «Pavements clogged almost every weekend, parking spaces for disabled people in the seaside area that cannot be found because they are occupied by those who don’t have to. Not to mention the scooters where you risk being knocked over because the person riding them is often distracted by their cell phone or going too fast, and all without adequate controls.” This is echoed by Maria Mencarini, provincial president of the Italian Union of the Blind: «They have been reported, and it is not the first time, in the stretch of Viale Trieste near the pedestrian area of Ponente, stalls for the disabled that are inaccessible because they are covered and in some cases occupied by the planters”.
The hotel hub
The managers of the Gala, Leonardo Da Vinci, Embassy and Alexander hotels know well that it’s always the same story with parking, so much so that they are now almost tired of complaining about wild parking and always lacking parking spaces in Levante every weekend at the seaside. And all this while those parking spaces reserved for hotels within the Santa Marta complex are still missing, which will be granted to Levante hoteliers from the beginning of July, but which will only half resolve the latent problem of the shortage, because Pesaro Parcheggi in agreement with the The Hoteliers Association does not grant more than that many spaces, and on the basis of the capacity and number of rooms.
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