Mayor Plans Traffic Improvements Near Maffei High School Amid Petition

A wide representation of teachers, students, the principal, and staff of the Maffei high school signed a petition to the mayor to draw the municipality’s attention to the danger posed by the group of avenues surrounding the school, which has significantly increased since the entire through-traffic has been diverted onto that route. The discomfort affects hundreds of people: high school students, elementary students from Pernici, middle school students from Chiesa, and conservatory attendees; many of them are commuters who alight at the stops on Viale Martiri or Viale Damiano Chiesa.

The mayor, responding to the first signer, Prof. Gianni Kral, foresees that traffic relief on the avenues will only be possible once the extension of the Comai connector to Viale Trento and the new beltway road, i.e., the western bypass, are operational.

The reopening of discussions on the traffic plan can occur in the short term, as the document has a biennial validity. For the immediate future, “this administration intends to improve pedestrian safety along routes and crossings, by installing marginal railings on the sidewalks that prevent crossing the street at points where it is not permitted.”

Positions on the traffic project

The mayor’s note concludes with a new lament for the vehicular overpass of via Filanda: the administration “opposes extending vehicle traffic along via Filanda, considering the cycle-pedestrian connection sufficient, which should be improved by removing the current hairpin bend, because the area will be limited to local traffic and specific access and egress from the schools.”