Actv, collection of signatures to bring Line 2 to the Lido of Venice
VENICE – Another one petitionthis time to ask for the restoration of line 2 of the Actv to Lido. Launched online, in less than two days, it has already collected over two thousand signatures. Yet another sign of the Venetians’ discontent with the public transport service. Line 2, as known, had been one of the victims of the cuts imposed by Covid. Limited to Rialto, until the introduction of the summer timetable, on 21 May, when, given the mass return of tourists, it was extended to San Marco. But not at the Lido, as was the case until 2019. Hence the discontent of the Venetians, now also manifested with the collection of signatures. “We are asking for more services to try to make Venice a city also for its residents” reads the appeal. A petition that comes after the one, manual, organized by two residents of Giudecca – an island particularly penalized by the Actv timetables – who in a few days had collected 1,135 signatures. Delivered to the president of the municipality, Marco Borghi, who in turn forwarded them to the director of Avm, Giovanni Seno, for now without results. Last year, on the initiative of the same municipality, the signatures collected for an improvement of public transport were even 10,000.
THE PROPOSAL
A multiplication of petitions that highlights a “real problem”, observes Giovanni Leone, the president of where, the association of Dorsoduro, which proposes the “opening of a 360 ° dialogue with workers, citizens and administrators, to put problems and agree on possible solutions “. Leone criticizes the methods used up to now by the administration: «If he opposes that there is no money and personnel without returning a documented picture of the problems, he does not make progress and leaves himself to neglect the needs of the residents. The idea that we see affirming itself is a bit that of the Venice to drink (in the sense of the nightlife spritz) but especially that of the market city ». In this sense also the proposal to grant stalls to traders. «The calli are narrow, the city full of tourists, it cannot be transformed into an open-air souk – he continues -. There are other problems, here we need to govern the dynamics not to loosen the links ». Hence the request to involve «the stakeholders, starting with the citizens, unheard. Nightlife, tourism, transport, housing, it is necessary to create a different climate in the city. We want to move from protest to proposals ».