AGROPOLI – You will travel in one alternate direction regulated by a traffic light system in the section between the north and south junctions of Agropoli della Cilentana, due to a crumbling wall because it was damaged. For motorists, a black period is expected. The bottleneck will cover a stretch of just 100 meters at kilometer 104. The mayor of Agropoli, Adamo Coppola, in his capacity as civil protection, health and public safety authority, has issued a special ordinance with which he has imposed on Anas to “provide ad horas to safety of the traffic on the state road, through the road signaling of the state of danger, the restriction of carriageway for a width such as to exclude the involvement of vehicles in transit in case of collapse of the reinforced concrete retaining wall “. The wall is in the left lane.
Therefore you will travel only in the right lane (direction Vallo della Lucania). Last June 14, a structural engineer from Naples, who was passing through, reported to the Agropoli Municipal Police Command, headed by commander Sergio Cauceglia, “that he had passed through the Cilentana and found that the reinforced concrete retaining wall , which forms the boundary of the carriageway, is broken perpendicularly to the axis ». The engineer expressed the danger of overturning affecting the lane traveled by the vehicles.
The local police chief took action, in turn signaling the danger to Anas, asking to immediately verify its validity. Then followed the trade union ordinance which requires the owners of the wall to ensure the safety of the concrete structure. It must now be understood whether this infrastructure is still owned by the seven owners, all residing between Scafati and Sant’Antonio Abate, to whom the provision was sent, or whether it was subject to expropriation by the Province of Salerno, which before the Anas he had jurisdiction over the road section. Although it must be said that Article 30 of the Highway Code establishes that “the construction and repair of support works along roads and highways (…) if they have as their purpose the stability or conservation of roads or highways, the construction or repair is the responsibility of the road owner ».
So Anas itself should be called to provide for the safety measures in order to avoid that a collapse or overturning may actually occur, as said by the Neapolitan engineer. A few hundred meters from the crumbling wall was the well-known speed camera of the municipality of Agropoli, then uninstalled as requested by the prefect of Salerno, who is carrying out a reconnaissance on the entire road where you continue to run at high speed. Just a few weeks ago there was an accident between the two Agropoli junctions involving five cars. Two were not seriously injured.
Andrea Passaro