Parking Contradictions Highlighted During Weekly Market Day
Every Wednesday market day, even without facing the peak of Ferragosto, highlights the contradictions of this majority regarding parking issues: not only unresolved, but also irritating for those who use a car out of necessity rather than luxury.
Parking situation and restrictions
The latest absurdity is represented by the no-parking zone, with a mandatory removal, established on the west stretch of viale Lutti, between the intersection of the bar Livio with viale Martiri and the entrance of the nursery on viale Roma.
There are thirty good parking spots, valuable because they are very close to the center, heavily used every day of the week, condemned to remain desolately empty on the day when user pressure on parking spaces around pedestrianized streets to host market stalls is the greatest.
There is no reason in the world to prevent the use of those parking spaces, yet the officer stationed permanently at the eastern intersection is forced to repeat dozens of times that the ordinance states so: if someone leaves their vehicle in the bays near the nursery park, a tow truck will arrive to remove it.
A joke costing three or four hundred thousand lire, between fines and transportation and storage expenses.
Contradictions and circulation
It is difficult to prevent the average motorist, without any particular malice but equipped with normal visual functions, from parking along viale Lutti, completely empty, while the newly expanded paid parking lot on viale Canella, rated poorly by users, only finds some dissatisfaction in the paid section of piazzale Pilati.
Impossible to establish a cause-and-effect relationship; but the contradiction is glaring and obvious.
Other than that, the market day went by without particular problems. No queues despite the closure of viale Pernici in the section behind the liceo.
The only moments of tension on viale Rovereto are caused by school bus stops on the sidewalk, which absurdly block traffic flow: but these are routine issues.
No rush to the stalls: although attendance remains substantial—especially from ten to one—there was no crowding.
This could mean that the new arrangement of market stalls, with the planned dispersal over a larger portion of the avenues, is working.
