Off to the checks. After the collapse of a street lighting pole in via Perpignanoin Palermo, the AMG company has announced that some checks on the state of the plants in the area of the Fifth District. In fact, yesterday morning, around lunchtime, the body of a lamppost crashed onto a car parked at number 91. Luckily, at the time of the impact, there was no one inside the building. passenger compartment. A fact that avoided far more harmful consequences. Traffic in the area was blocked for several hours, waiting for the pole to be removed from the road.
The anger of those who live in the neighborhood
The one in Via Perpignano is only the latest in a long series of collapses. Many light points in the city are old, almost bordering on obsolete. Also due to the poor maintenance of past years, some electricity poles give way and end up on the ground, especially on days of adverse weather conditions. A fact which logically exposes it to problems in terms of public safety, as underlined yesterday by the councilor of the V District Davide Grasso. “Another tragedy has been touched upon. We are located in the Noce neighborhood. It has become impossible to live in this city. Anything happens. Trees, electricity poles fall, road pavements give way. Citizens should feel safe in the city and instead what happened happens“.
AMG will carry out checks in the area
A collapse on which AMG, a company that deals with public lighting in the city, will carry out specific checks in the V District area. “As regards the pole that fell in via Perpignano – specified the company -, it is a support that has completed its useful life having been installed between the end of the Seventies and the beginning of the Eighties, with phenomena of corrosion in the fitting section. An urgent inspection of the neighboring poles will be started as early as next week. Supports found to be in critical condition will be removed“.
The topic of the service contract
“It should be noted – adds AMG – that the verification of the stability of the poles and the interlocking sections is not an activity foreseen in the current service contract and which AMG Energia has repeatedly reported to the Municipality of Palermo, owner of the lighting network, the need to proceed with ad hoc verification measures in consideration of the advanced age of most of the systems. It must also be said that the company, as part of the scheduled maintenance activities constantly carried out, also carries out a visual check of the conditions of the poles which, in case of critical issues, are promptly removed”.
AMG will install over 600 new poles
In addition to safety checks, the company in via Tiro a Segno is investing time and money in the installation of new systems. “Furthermore, the extraordinary maintenance intervention authorized by the Municipality to AMG Energia to relocate 637 poles of the public lighting systems will soon come to life. Supports that had been decommissioned because they no longer met the stability and safety requirements. AMG is defining the procedures for assigning relocation activities”.
