2024-05-12 14:41:52
LIVES. The owners of some businesses overlooking via Pietralbaas well as the street traders (the latter for different reasons), who open their stalls along the same street every Thursday morning, are worry.
«Since the construction site for the square – they say – the volume of business has taken a nosedive, to the point that some of us are thinking of closing down”. The problem – for those who manage a bar or a shop, is mainly that of the lack of parking. Before the construction site began, cars parked in the square behind the former town hall, but since the work began, there is no longer a public parking space in the center and at the same time foot traffic has drastically decreased.
«We understand the safety needs of a large construction site like the one in the square – say the traders – but we understand less why the Municipality has decided to completely close Via Pietralba to traffic. From what we can see, an alternating one-way system could have been established instead in the section where the construction site occupies half the road, which, among other things, would have also allowed the passage of the shuttle bus with which several elderly people go to and from the “ex Filanda” area upstream from the city, buses that took place at the Via Pietralba stop, and which no longer exists today. This forces you to go to the stops in via Kennedy or via Galizia and for an elderly woman with shopping it is a big inconvenience.”
The street vendors
The problem highlighted – for some time – by street traders is different. For them, they say, «the problem is represented by the fact that the market stalls along via Pietralba are located uphill and people of a certain age find it difficult to go from one side to the other. This penalizes attendance”. The street vendors, as a solution to their problems, would see the move to Via Kennedy favorably, but the Municipality has already clarified that it is not possible because Via Kennedy must always remain passable if the tunnel variant were to be interrupted.
2024-05-12 14:41:52