BATTIPAGLIA – Work resumed at Piu Europa. But Ati, headed by Athena Grandiopera, has decided not to provide certain dates for the completion of the work. In fact, the announcements have already had no practical response twice. Giove Pluvio was also involved in “plotting” against the completion of the works, preventing the construction site from being completed by February. “Unfortunately – explained the commissioner for public works Pietro Cerullo – there have been a series of setbacks. In January, the rain, even before the problem of company change. In short, this time they started again at a good pace and I think we won’t have to wait much longer, especially if the weather holds up ». After the stop due to the anti-mafia interdict, in fact, a new stop due to the health emergency and the consequent blocking of all construction sites. In July 2020 the shipyard should have returned to full capacity, but it was decided to bring the holidays forward.
Only at the end of August 2020, with extreme slowness, after complex safety and sanitization operations, as well as preparation and implementation of the anticovid protocols, did the construction site reopen. To then close again shortly after. The works were resumed on 12 October, after a very long pause, when the technical office to allow the completion of the work issued an order prohibiting parking and stopping which involved the entire area of the railway where the buses stopped. Then a new catch. For which no explanations have been given, except for the rain. In addition to the asphalt that has been settling in the last few days, the parking lots should also be ready. Then it will be the turn of the lift and, finally, the completion of the walkway that will connect the two areas of the city that have remained isolated from each other for years. «When the contract was made – explains Cerullo – no clause on delivery times was inserted. But it is also in their interest to complete quickly because they will only recover the investment when they can start managing the parking spaces ”.
Therefore, it will not be a municipal management but a private one. “Completing the bus terminal is also essential for us. Thanks to that, the Battipaglia station will again become attractive as a high-speed railway terminus. They will be able to stop there in large buses that take you to the south as well as to the north and to this will be added the train stops ”. The only drawback is the loss of the space of the railway after-work which, in all likelihood, will house a residential building.
Stefania Battista