A retraining which has made it possible to make an area more livable, “removing it from a parking lot that for fifty years has been nothing short of wild and restoring a stately, safe and comfortable space, suitable for active mobility and that citizens can use to go to school and work”. This is the satisfied comment of the president of the 7th District Luca Deripresent at the inauguration of the new cycle path in Corso Verona.
The intervention
An intervention financed by React Eu funds for 900 thousand euros, which gave the possibility of creating 500 meters of track on both sides of the course. One of the investments that are changing the face of Borgo Rossini. The path, which allows to connect Lungo Dora Firenze with Via Perugia, is not only an intervention of traffic moderation and soft mobility, but “also of demolition of architectural barriers” underlined the Councilor for Roads Clear Leaflet.
In fact, new ones have been created crossings pedestrian crossings at the corners of road intersections with raised paving to help visually impaired people cross. Not only that, twenty new trees have been planted and parking spaces have been arranged in line.
The redevelopment
“Every time we intervene, it is not just, as some people think, to disturb cars,” the councilor explained, “but to make the entire city more inclusive. To make it welcoming for children, for the elderly, for people with disabilities. And to help encourage active mobility.”
A small path that connects the area «to the campus Einaudi University that needed it so much – Foglietta pointed out – and that it will encourage travel from home to work and home to school.” “There will be many others,” the councilor said again.
Also present at the inauguration was Sette’s Mobility and Environment coordinator, Giuseppe Piras. «This is a neighborhood that is undergoing great transformations, for the better. Through the transformations we imagine a city tailored to people – commented the coordinator -. Infrastructures are not only useful and a way to bring order, but they can outline an image of a more people-friendly Turin.”
