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MERANO. A formal notice was delivered to the town hall and the offices of the municipal company, signed by a group of traders from via Leonardo da Vinci, the branch of via Portici that connects piazza Duomo to corso Libertà/piazza della Rena. They are asking the administration to have access to the documents and a meeting, but in fact they would push to review the program of works for the reconstruction of the infrastructures in the subsoil. As things stand, the construction site should start in mid-September and end in mid-December 2024. The work of the third and final lot, the one that concerns the upper section of via Portici, is scheduled for the period between January 15 and May 15, 2025.
Timing
And it is precisely the timing that the traders of via da Vinci are railing against. The letter sent to the municipal leaders (and by extension to the Municipalized Company) is clear and essentially asks: why is the period identified for the Portici the one with the least tourist influx, while we should see bulldozers and workers on the edge of the door right in the middle of the most profitable season? Furthermore, they argue, while the porticos between Piazza del Grano and Piazza Duomo have always allowed easy access to the shops and the passage of potential customers without excessive obstacles (we are talking about the work on the lower Portici, completed at the end of May in record time by Asm and the companies in charge), in via Leonardo da Vinci the situation, due to the narrow silhouette of the road, would cause much greater criticalities. With significant repercussions on the balance sheets of the economic activities that overlook it. In the background, the possibility of an appeal to the TAR.
Comparison
«For our part, we are available for a meeting – Giorgio Balzarini asserts – but at the pre-
without even the Municipality”. It goes without saying that, if it were to be decided to postpone the works, “the
decision will have to be agreed upon”. At the moment, Balzarini explains, the timing of the construction site is confirmed, “we discussed it today (yesterday for the reader, ed.) in the board of directors. Various meetings have been held on the topic, there are contracts in the works with related penalties. We are ready to listen to the traders, I repeat, and equally available to identify and agree on the most suitable solutions to create the least possible inconvenience. But the work is necessary. I also hope that the issue does not become a springboard for instru-
political talizations».
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