BRINDISI – When, more than ten years ago, the Capitoline Administration announced the closure of the Imperial Forums to traffic, controversy erupted. It’s obviously hyperbole, but the diatribe around the Viale Aldo Moro cycle path is no joke either. It is a topic debated in Brindisi and, to stay with the latest episodes, we can start again from yesterday (Monday 24 June 2024), when councilor Gianluca Quarta released statements on a recent decree from the Ministry of the Environment which opens up the possibility of modify or move the location of the disputed project. If this last aspect obtains the applause of Confesercenti, there is a vitriolic “clarification” from some opposition councilors who say, in a nutshell, “look, the project variations are not gratuitous et amore dei”, freely paraphrasing their note.
“The choice of viale Aldo Moro is wrong, let’s change”
Before, the applause, it was said: “It is known that Confesercenti, ‘Fare verde’ and Imagine Brindisi, in addition to the residents and traders of that very busy stretch of road, have never shared that type of location identified by the previous municipal administration, both due to the inappropriate road surface, having to also provide car parking, which due to the high incidence of vehicular traffic often causes traffic jams, with the consequent impossibility of transit of emergency and public order vehicles”, reads a note.
Also in the press release, Confesercenti and the two associations recall that the councilor Quarta, responding to the municipal councilor of the same name, Roberto, had added as a postscript to the answer explaining that “asphalting is never a damage, at most it is a restoration”. Here, from Confesercenti they are diligently asking for the restoration of the headquarters.
“The costs of modifications passed on to the Municipalities”
So everything’s fine? Not at all: Roberto Quarta had pointed out how the work was continuing. The councilor replied that it is normal, there are technical times. And speaking of works, the opposition city councilors Francesco Cannalire, Lino Luperti, Alessandro Antonino, Denise Aggiano, Michelangelo Greco and Alessio Carbonella write: “Not even his offices believed him (to councilor Quarta, ed.) and the completion works of the cycle path are continuing at great speed”.
Then, the reading of the decree is another attack from the opposition: “The decree intended for all municipalities with a population exceeding 50 thousand inhabitants, beneficiaries of the Primus program such as Brindisi, allows, if necessary, to modify, using precise assumptions, the project by derogating from a previous provision but does not allocate resources. In short, the Ministry (of the Environment, ed.) led, needless to say, by Forza Italia passes on any costs of design revision of the cycle paths to the Municipalities, but Gianluca Quarta does not say this, because undoubtedly he has no interest in highlighting it.”
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