The numbers detected on weekends in July. Morning averages over a thousand passages per hour from 7 to 12, the same on the return
TREVISO. Whose profits? Who benefits from the “Via del Mare”, that is the nearly 200 million construction site that will transform 18.8 kilometers of Treviso Mare into a freeway, making it the main road connecting the capital and many municipalities of the Marca to the sea? To understand it, it is worthwhile to take a look at nnumber of Treviso people who queue up on the road in summer and that one day they will be the main sponsor of the work.
I study
Unlike the Venetian foothills, built from scratch and justified by traffic studies made to the sound of hypotheses and simulations, the “Via del Mare” already exists. The highway will in fact rise on the Treviso sea. Queues and summer queues are in the memory of every driver, but I am also black and white in the studies commissioned by those who will work tomorrow on the Treviso sea. We are talking about Amazon, which attached the results of the survey campaign carried out in July of last year between Friday and Monday to the project for the construction of the Polo between Roncade and Meolo (just two hundred meters from the future toll booth of the “via del Mare”). .
All the numbers
The numbers are clear. On Friday the average transit of cars towards Jesolo immortalized before the future toll booth is equal to about 800 cars per hour from seven in the morning onwards with an increasing trend in the second part of the day up to an evening peak of 1300 euros per hour ( those who switch off on Fridays and run to the sea). Saturday? Between seven and 9 there is an immediate peak at 1400 cars per hour (the exodus), then the numbers decrease also causes slowdowns but remaining on about 1000 steps per hour until 14 and then decreasing. Sunday? Immediately peak at an altitude of 1400 transits then a faster reduction due to the fact that many have already “climbed” on Saturday. On Monday, always in the direction of Jesolo, the average is standard on 700 vehicles per hour.
In the opposite sense? On Friday, when everyone goes to the beach, there are no peaks towards Treviso but moderate flows. On Saturday, however, the counter-exodus spreads until 2 am with an average of 800 cars per hour (even at midnight). Sunday the return is a long queue: between 17 and 20 it always travels above 1200 cars per hour with peaks at 1400, and remains above 1100 until midnight and beyond. Monday morning, after a peak between seven and eight with a thousand cars on average removed, the normality is between 600 and 700 transits on an hourly average. Between Saturday and Sunday alone, around 43,000 transits are calculated between the round trip.
The tail makes it
How much is the desire for the sea worth of the Treviso people? The bill is quickly done: take for example only the cumulative figure for the weekend (Saturday Sunday); imagine even just 1 euro per toll; multiply everything. The result is € 40,000 in receipts in just two days of a summer exodus weekend. It is a rough calculation because the toll of the future “Treviso paid sea” is still unknown, but in the meantime it gives the idea. Private individuals who intend to build the “Via del mare” (including, as it happens, there is the Sis della Pedemontana) have not yet presented the financial project quantifying the cost of the sections.
What is known, to date, is that there is no certainty that once you arrive in Jesolo (paying) the queues on the coast are just a bad memory; and that the controversy is mounting on the opera.
The pros and cons
The Region, promoter of the intervention, after a process that lasted years and now considered forgotten in the drawers, now pushes and justifies the work as an improvement of the “access system to the sea”. The Treviso mayors who overlook the entrance toll booth (Roncade, Silea, San Biagio) brand it as “bloodletting for the Treviso people and work harmful to the secondary roads. Even some Northern League supporters like Paola Roma, mayor of Ponte di Piave, who fears being hit by the traffic of those who do not want to pay, mumbles.
The Treviso people, main and future sponsors of the shipyard, tremble having sensed the antiphon in recent days: to go to the sea one day you will have to pay or get lost in the secondary road network. Which means refreshing the old Triestine, Jesolane, the streets for Musile etc. Toll exemptions are requested, but to date they are only provided for the Venetian municipalities and, perhaps, Roncade.