Leaving the city of Bergamo and heading towards Valle Seriana often means being condemned to kilometre-long queues and long waits, as reported several times in this newspaper.
However, good news comes from the Region: half a million euros to try to dissolve the traffic light intersection that leads onto provincial road 35 of the Seriana Valley from via Cesare Correnti and which acts as a stopper both for those heading into the valley and for those entering in the city. What is commonly called the “Martinella knot”.
From one to two lanes
The basic idea is not entirely new and is to widen the stretch (by about two hundred metres) to two lanes in each direction between the intersection and the junction for Torre Boldone. The novelty, however, lies in the fact that yesterday, Monday 9 December, the green light arrived from the regional council which also made the funds available, five hundred thousand euros, as part of a package of interventions financed with the distribution of the fees of the large hydroelectric derivations.
«Improve safety and traffic»
The regional councilor for infrastructure, Claudia Maria Terzihe explained to The Echo of Bergamo that these resources will be used to «redevelop the Sp 35 intersection with via Martinella, to improve road safety and improve traffic, given the traffic problem known and reported for some time».
How we will intervene is not yet defined for now, because if it is true that the widening of the roadway is one of the hypotheses in the field, it is not the only one either, given that the in-depth study that will be carried out in the coming months on the flows of traffic will say whether it will also be necessary to intervene on the traffic light system or whether there will be space and a way to regulate traffic in another way, perhaps with a roundabout.
Important result
The allocation is the result of pressure made by the Municipality of Bergamo and those in the hinterland such as Torre Boldone, Gorle and Ranica on the Province first and then on the Region to take the intervention into consideration. Davide Casati, regional councilor for the Democratic Party, underlines this: «We are talking about a work which, if well designed and implemented, will be able to solve some of the traffic problems which, especially during rush hours, weigh on the Bergamo hinterland at the entrance to Val Seriana.”
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