STOP New roundabouts? Let’s take it slow. After collecting signatures to do another one at the crossroads on the main road to Capodarco, the initiative carried out for the project, complete with a petition to start the work, is contested by another resident of the area. The works, among other things, would end up affecting part of her property. But the problem, as you point out, is not this. Or rather: it’s not just that. That crossroads is anything but dangerous, the last accident in the area dates back to many weeks ago and, in reality, it was a car that went off-road along the main road at least a hundred meters from the entrance to the climb which leads to San Michele and Capodarco.
The doubts
«That signature collection – the resident points out – was actually organized in the Conad car park in Porto San Giorgio, which is located a short distance from the crossroads. In those cases it is easy to put together dozens of signatures, ask passers-by if they agree and they say yes. Maybe they live miles away, what do they know? That petition was passed off as the demand of all residents, but in reality that is not true. Building a roundabout here, with the limited spaces available, would be a disaster. The one in Lido San Tommaso, for example, was useful: at rush hour there was always a big queue to get onto the main road coming from San Marco alla Paludi, but here the situation is different. There is no traffic in that area and, above all, there are no accidents. Why do the work right here?”. The petition, which we reported on in recent days, was started in particular by a resident who still lives in the area and the appeal has already been forwarded to the Region, Province, Anas and Municipalities of Fermo and Porto San Giorgio, accompanied by around 240 signatures. The request would be linked, according to the initiative’s supporter, also to the increase in commercial activities (supermarkets and shops, therefore campsites and fuel stations) but also to the presence of the Civil Protection and Blue Cross of Porto San Giorgio in the area. This is the northern entrance to the coastal city and cars pass through here at all hours of the day and night. Few people take the road to Capodarco, the majority get stuck on the Porto San Giorgio state road where, shortly after, they encounter the first of the small roundabouts built in recent years, this one for the crossroads that leads towards the seafront in the Grattacielo area.
The hypothesis
Taking inspiration from the other roundabouts recently built on the main road (the one at the old intersection for Marina Palmense and Torre di Palme, once often the scene of accidents, and the other at the crossroads for San Marco alle Paludi, where the transit both towards Fermo and along the state road, but where the works are still in progress), it was decided to push this new project: given that it is the state road, it should bring together the Municipality, the Province and Anas. A complicated process.
The doubts
Among other things, the new Lido San Tommaso roundabout was not appreciated by everyone, despite the ten-year push for its construction. More than one motorist and some truck drivers have expressed some doubts about the work: vehicles in transit are forced to make a very tight curve both if they remain on the main road towards Porto San Giorgio and if they have to turn towards Fermo.
The area
The spaces are smaller than other roundabouts and, furthermore, the work on the sea side lane is still underway: for a definitive judgment the completion of the work will be necessary.
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