Genoa, infiltrations and no service: this is how we live in the washing machines of Pegli – Primocanale.it
Genoa – The spokesperson of the two committees that you live well up there, “yes, there are some infiltrations in the houses and no shops, but otherwise it is not bad here …”.
But the glass is not always half full at the Lavatrici di Pegli 3, that hilly district of the west of Genoa that can be seen from the A1 motorway0, famous for the concrete portholes designed in the 1980s by the architect Luigi Rizzo, seems to be inspired by Japanese “beehive” homes.
Up there at the washing machines once there was a shopping arcade, with markets, shops and bars, and now nothing. Worse than in the Cep di Prà, a much larger popular neighborhood, but where at least there is a bakery, a pharmacy, a CGIL counter and a hairdresser.
“There has been a three-year project to get the shops back – explains Davide Berli, of the San Pietro di Pra ‘committee overlooking the commercial port of Pra’ – there will be calls for tenders, someone interested is there, there will be a gallery with a supermarket, pizzeria and tobacconist, but for four years we have no longer had anything … there is also the idea of starting a pesto factory, since we are in Pra ‘”.
At the washing machines there are 700 homes, of which 40% are private individuals and the rest of the municipality, “but here you live well, beyond the usual infiltration into houses” explains Stefano Di Luigi, voice of the Pegli 3 committee overlooking the football fields and the greenery of via Ungaretti.
That you do not live well, however, transpires from the words of the people, almost all elderly, stopped waiting for the bus that takes you to the city, to Pra ‘, the place of shops, so close and yet so far for those who do not have a car or a scooter. : “Few buses in the evening, no shops, dirty streets” everyone denounced.
(The journey to the Primocanale washing machines continues in the next few days)