President Santi, “Do not block the work”
Ask to “agree on better and common sense solutions to the route, but do not block the work”. The president of the province of Rimini Riziero Santi intervened on the project for the new state road 16. The approved route runs alongside the A14 from Misano to just before via Tolemaide in Rimini, where it reconnects with the current one. May Day Village, the passage on agricultural land in northern Rimini, would create problems at the Riccione junction and in the Belvedere district of Misano. Santi opens to small changes, but reiterates, “without substantial changes to the environmental impact assessment”
“The route of the new road, foreseen today in the Anas design, was discussed, mediated and finally approved in the Conference of the State-Region Services, during the environmental impact assessment phase – writes Santi -, with the contribution of all entities and Municipalities involved, with the inevitable stomach ache that comes at the time of each work that thus strongly impacts the design on the territory “.
“We are faced with a crossroads of possible paths to be taken in the construction process of the work: give impetus and continuity by soliciting the financing of the work by the Government and continuity of implementation by Anas; support the request for change, even partial, of the route, with the consequence that we will have to start all over again and redo the EIA procedure, with another stop and biblical times to face; ask for interventions to improve the route solving the critical issues still present and solvable without substantial changes to the EIA.
For the President of the province “going back and stopping the work would be a sensational mistake. This is why I have already met Anas, the Region and farmers’ associations to agree on the solution that proposes necessary improvements that I believe are common sense and certainly acceptable by Anas and the Ministry of Infrastructure. Therefore, full speed ahead with possible adjustments without jeopardizing the continuity in the realization of the work. An urgent clarification at the institutional level is needed with all the stakeholders, so in the next few days I will take steps to organize a meeting that will clarify the objectives and procedures “.