Bari, endless construction sites through Cotugno: “The road is broken for the fifth time”

BARI – Picone and Poggiofranco, the construction sites are endless. Such as disturbances, arguments and protests. The last intervention of the dispute, that of the work started through Cotugno (in front of the Historical Society of Angiulli Gymnastics), the eleventh which led to the breaking of the pavement, with the direct result of re-creating the protest and disruption.

complaint Residents and drivers expressed their displeasure by reporting an unexpected daily “Camel Trophy”. “You can’t stand it anymore, every day is a surprise, just when you expected the construction sites to be finished. Now it is at least the fifth time that holes have opened through Cotugno. But we could not think of a coordinated intervention, even to save time and money”, roars the reader, witnessing the frustration of the inconvenience “which we have had to suffer and endure for 3 years now”.

Workers and bulldozers The result of the presence of workers, bulldozers and construction sites on the streets is a load of traffic at all hours of the day, with queues and slow downs that make access to the city a real nightmare. In fact, if you come from the Solarino bridge (thanks to the ramp chicane built with a new road system), from Generale Bellomo or via Mazzitelli, with the intention of reaching viale Papa Giovanni XXIII or viale Orazio Flacco, the effect of the funnel is unavoidable, also because the construction site is at the end of the circuit. .

A rush hour dream As mentioned, at some point of the day, a dream come true, in a street also burdened with access to a sports club, a nursery school, workshops and warehouses.

The current intervention is by Enel to install a “20 mega” line, a very fast connection (20 Megabits per second) to download files from the Internet or view a page on a website. Estimated time, approximately ten days when the road surface will be re-paved.

Traffic In fact, the livability, at least along the road, of the area between Picone, Poggiofranco, Quartierino and the surrounding areas has been below acceptable limits for some time. The FAL interventions have been completed for a long time, resulting in better and more efficient traffic – the result of an investment of more than 18 million – and the associated construction of 3 roundabouts (via Tatarella-via Matarrese; via Mazzitelli-Cotugno-Bellomo; viale Pasteur- Solarino -Murge), the construction of a pedestrian underpass between Viale Pasteur and Via Matarrese and removing the level crossings in Via delle Murge and Strada Santa Caterina. Soon after, however, Aqp construction sites and other underground services were gradually opened, with roads being re-torn, asphalt renewed and excavations uninterrupted.

As mentioned, an unsustainable state that seems to have no end. The work schedule should be completed by February. Will it be like this?