Brescia Council Pushes for Gardesana Road Reopening to Boost Tourism

The urgency to ensure the Gardesana Occidentale’s reopening for the Gardesana tourist economy (not just Limone) south of Riva has garnered one of the very few unanimous votes in this city council.

While the councilors are masters of nuanced distinctions, the other evening the horrifying prospect of two seasons canceled and an economic system with 10,000 beds regressed to the Middle Ages prevailed.

The concern is so great that the idea of an obligatory closure is not even being considered. When it becomes absolutely unavoidable, because of the desire to request a declaration of natural disaster for the Brescia side if it were to lose access to the road, they resort to the phrase: “in the unfortunate hypothesis of a solution other than reopening…”

Requests and Proposals for Reopening

Everyone agrees that the province must find a way at all costs to reopen “under acceptable safety conditions” for travelers and technicians called to endorse transit authorization.

Unanimity supports the construction of a tunnel toward the Sperone; increasing Navigarda ferry services with possible public funding for new commuters; and above all, consensus on reopening by Easter when the first influx of tourists in 2001 from neighboring Germany will arrive.

With one clarification: the danger does not stop at the Lombardy border. It is therefore essential that the Trentino intervention, ready to invest 80 billion immediately, be followed by similar interest from the Lombards.

Otherwise, the truly absurd prospect is spending 80 billion to secure the 45 bis route up to Sperone, while the road remains forever closed due to Brescia-targed landslides.