Yet another clash between trucks on the isolated Ponte Preti Alto Canavese

Situation now unsustainable, traffic on tilt for over 5 hours. Inadequate and old-fashioned structure. The money to do it again is gone

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Two jammed trucks, an injured driver (hospitalized and then discharged from the Ivrea hospital), crazy traffic, furious motorists, Eporediese and Alto Canavese practically isolated. A sensational fact? A dramatic accident? No. Normality on the 565 Pedemontana state road at Ponte Preti, an already old, obsolete, inadequate structure, badly designed since its inception.

And on Wednesday, at 12, yet another accident (the sixth since the beginning of the year, the fifth involving two bison on the road) to remind us of how the exception becomes the rule where politics counts as the two trump. Nothing. The infrastructure is inadequate, to put it mildly, and the ten-year promised jobs always described as imminent not even a shadow. To describe the accident it is enough to copy and paste one of the last ten with the aggravating circumstance, this time, that in the absurd and crazy chaos of the road network there is to add another collision with a wounded woman in the Quagliuzzo tunnel. For the record, the situation returned to normal only at five in the afternoon. When hundreds of giant trucks began to cross a bridge designed for horse-drawn carriages again. The Metropolitan City, in October 2020, announced the allocation by the Government of 19 and a half million euros for the design and construction of a brand new bridge. Then nothingness, darkness. A deafening silence broken by the announcement of Anas that has formalized a further investment of 2.5 million euros for the maintenance of the old bridge, born in 1920. Then the official declaration, those that put reality and politics on different sides: “The passage of the 565 to the Anas has complicated things a bit – says Metropolitan Deputy Mayor Jacopo Suppo – the money from the” bridge decree “is there but we have to find an answer on how to spend it, since that infrastructure is no more than our competence “. Here, it would take a bridge to unite politics and real life. –