“Today we are reaping the fruits of the agreement signed in 2022 between the Municipality of Parma, the Emilia Romagna Region, the Province of Parma and the Po River Basin Authority, an agreement strongly desired by Effetto Parma, the governing force in the Municipality, in which commitments and a vision of what the Ponte Nord should become were outlined, from an empty shell to a “Bridge of Waters”.
This was declared by the President of the Effetto Parma Association Mirko Reggiani and the City Councilor Michele Alinovi.
“We therefore welcome with great favour the step forward that Mayor Guerra – following up on the agreement signed in 2022 – has made on this long-standing issue by presenting the project to the Town Hall
completion and repurposing of the North Bridge as the new headquarters of the Po River Basin Authority, an important institution in Parma that deals with the planning of an increasingly precious and sometimes dangerous asset such as water.
An ambitious bet which sees, in this new institutional headquarters, on the one hand the possibility of strengthening the presence of the Po River Basin Authority in Parma – following up with new spaces
to the Authority’s ambitious hiring plan – on the other hand the possibility of finally giving citizens back a public place capable of inserting itself into the cultural life of the city by focusing on training, research and dissemination of a new water culture that has as its objective the protection of aquatic ecosystems and the enhancement of the landscapes and river routes that gravitate along the tributaries of the Po, making this uninhabited bridge a cultural and tourist opportunity for our territory.
Effetto Parma is available to collaborate seriously with all the political forces that have this project at heart and we hope that the Government, thanks also to the commitment of the local parliamentarians and the Municipal Administration, will restore the ministerial funds removed at the end of 2022 which could allow the concrete and definitive resolution of this age-old and in some ways paradoxical issue.”
