Riva Implements Parking and Traffic Changes Amid Peak Season
The parking emergency may be behind us now that summer has ended, but in Riva, it remains a significant concern. In fact, in the coming days, the situation is expected to worsen further. First, the closure of the western Gardesana and then the arrival of the Luna Park—two major events in the conference season—as well as a series of other coincidences, will make parking spots as precious as gold.
To address this issue, on the eve of the completion works for the tunnel connecting the upper Garda area with Limone, Cesare Malossini, the mayor, signed an ordinance that, from today until December 15, will introduce some changes to the traffic regulations and will make strategically located parking areas free—normally paid spots.
Let’s see what these new measures entail. Starting with parking: the parking lot on viale Canella will suspend the requirement to pay for a ticket; the same applies to the parking lot at piazza Catena, but only on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
The areas of the Porta Orientale Gardens and via Maroni, which until yesterday were regulated by a time-limited parking disc, will now be available for unlimited parking.
These modifications are necessary to help the dozens of commuters who daily travel from the province of Brescia to work in the Busa area and, once disembarked from the ferry, use their cars—left here by us—to reach factories or offices.
Additional measures may be introduced in the coming days if the municipal administration deems the current ones insufficient.
New traffic regulations
There are also updates on traffic regulations: on the west side of via Montre Oro, between the motorcycle parking area at piazza Catena, a reserved lane will be created again for vehicles queued to board the Navigarda ferries (for this reason, parking here will also be prohibited with enforcement measures).
On the same street, in the segment between the intersection with via Bastione and piazza Catena, the maximum speed limit is set at 30 kilometers per hour.
In via Giacomo Cis (near the train station), where construction work by Collini has been awarded for the tunnel, parking will be prohibited with vehicles subject to forced removal.
Beware also of heavy vehicles crossing Riva to transport debris from the tunnel to the landfill.
This involves the concrete “sprayed” hurriedly in June over the ceiling of the tunnel, treated with special chemical substances to solidify in minutes. This treatment prevented unloading the material into the lake as originally planned, as it is excavated from the worksite and involves hundreds of thousands of cubic meters.
The route for incoming heavy vehicles will be: viale Trento, Largo Marconi, viale Canella, via Monte Oro, via Giacomo Cis; exiting will follow: via Giacomo Cis, via Monte Oro, viale Canella, Largo Marconi, via Baruffaldi, viale Martiri XXVIII Giugno, and viale Trento.
