Riva’s New Ring Road Construction Underway Amid Technical Surveys
The large ring road of Riva, namely the west alternative of the Gardesana Occidentale, has begun. In recent days, landowners between San Giacomo and Lavino, those within the construction zone of the road, received a letter from the province informing them that geotechnical surveys required by the executive project are underway.
The provincial offices also listed a long roster of technicians, some employed directly by the province and others working at the office of engineer Gentilini, responsible for design, authorized to access the land for surveys and core sampling.
Inspections and technical issues
The project is now ready, but before presenting it at the meeting scheduled for the first week of September, technical experts want to verify, as is now standard practice, the soil consistency at the depth planned in the project.
It should no longer happen what occurred in the first, shorter section of the Ledense tunnel: where the requirement to connect levels imposed by the project caused the route not to adapt to the nature of the strata to be crossed, with well-known results: a house swallowed during construction and the tunnel’s base damaged after only a few years of operation, leading to inspections and measurements.
The core samplings still in the design phase are being carried out until reaching the planned tunnel elevation, not only on the surface.
Route details and future innovations
The section of the ring road that engineer Gentilini is designing begins from the parking lot in via Monte Oro: the administration has accepted the shortened solution, although it prefers the south exit from the power plant, because that is what the province decided.
On the other hand, when and if funding allows continuing the tunnel to the junction with the old Ponale, the exit in via Monte Oro will make sense, serving traffic heading into the center of Riva.
The 58 million euros allocated in the budget will permit reaching the current Riva-Arco highway, at the intersection with via Sant’Andrea.
The road will pass north of the Baltera trade fair area, cut across the countryside at Pasina (finally relieving excess traffic from the current provincial road), and will utilize a section of the existing road at Cementi, then reach, along a new route roughly parallel to the current via Sant’Andrea, the 45 bis.
Six roundabouts are planned between the Sant’Andrea junction and the Ledense state road. The executive project will be presented by Councilor Casagranda to the high Garda municipalities in three weeks.