Entrusted the works to build the cycle path between the Aurelia bridge and the Cep
The Municipality of Pisa has entrusted the works for the construction of a new urban cycle path that will connect the bridge over the Aurelia to the district of cep. The intervention is financed with 162 thousand euros of funds intercepted by the Municipal Administration as part of the funding provided by the Pnrr.
“The intervention to create a cycle-pedestrian path between the bridge over the Aurelia and the Cep district will start in the coming months and will be completed by the end of 2023 – declares the mayor of Pisa Michele Conti – the cycle path, connecting with the cycle lanes present on the Lungarno Leopardi, will complete the connection between the city and the district, operating a mending of the stretches of pedestrian and cycle paths already existing along the Arno and improving the livability of the Cep district which can be reached from the city center following a In the broader project of the intervention, which will be implemented at a later time, the cycle path will also rejoin the Trammini cycle path. This first intervention is one of five on cycle mobility that our Administration has managed to get financed with Pnrr funds for a total of 3.1 million euros, to expand the city cycle path network and give a great boost to the dissemination of projects of sustainable mobility in Pisa”.
“In addition to the Cep cycle path – continues the Mayor – the cycle path that will connect the via di Pratale-via Moruzzi axis with the via Matteucci-via di Cisanello cycle path will in fact be built with Pnrr funds for the amount of 200 thousand euros; the new section of the Trammino cycle path which will connect via Viaccia to via Livornese, for an investment of 900 thousand euros; the cycle/pedestrian path in via Contessa Matilde, from largo Cocco Griffi to via San Ranierino for the sum of 300 thousand euros; finally the cycle path along the Viale delle Cascine to connect the city with the San Rossore estate, which has received a loan of 1.5 million euros and is in the executive planning stage”.
The work for the cycle path between the Aurelia bridge and the Cep was awarded to the Cogeme srl company, at the end of the tender procedures. The project concerns the construction of the 1st lot of the cycle/pedestrian path that extends between the bridge over the Aurelia and via Umberto Giordano and is part of a larger project, which will be implemented later, which provides for its extension inside the floodplain for safely reach the Ponte del Cep and from here, having crossed the Arno on cycle lanes, go to rejoin the Trammino cycle path. The intervention in question falls within the objectives of the municipal administration aimed at completing the city cycle path network as a valid alternative to the use of the car for travel within the city, at enhancing and improving the use of the banks of the River Arno and at improving the livability of neighborhoods.
The intervention area develops on the raised embankment, on the right bank of the River Arno, west of Pisa. The path it starts from the traffic-lighted crossing recently built near the Aurelia bridge and reaches the cycle-pedestrian section of via Umberto Giordano by crossing via Fossa Ducaria. The layout has uneven characteristics depending on the stretches: a first stretch, about 210 meters long starting from the via Aurelia, in which the cycle/pedestrian path is built on a stretch of road (part of the old layout of via Ippica) asphalted in recent years; a second stretch of about 120 metres, which goes from here to the intersection of via Tesio with via Fossa Ducaria and is still part of the old via Ippica, of which only traces of the road pavement now degraded and invaded by herbaceous vegetation remain; a third stretch of about 310 metres, in which the route continues on the head of the embankment, raised above the road, skirting the Via della Fossa Ducaria. On the top of the grass embankment there is today an earth path already used today; at the height of the sports field, the embankment path stops and the cycle path continues, after crossing via Fossa Ducaria, to merge into via Umberto Giordano via the existing cycle/pedestrian path and enter the district from here.