VARZI. In view of the checkered flag, the super job aimed at completing the bureaucratic process necessary for the proper conduct of the Six Days of Enduro has now come to an end.
This was officially communicated by the Oltrepo Pavese Mountain Community, which in recent months has worked hard alongside organizers, authorities and public bodies to ensure that the event could be held in total safety and in full respect of the territory that will host it.
The comunication
“The route, from what can be seen for the stretches involved in the Staffora Valley, will not cover areas of high naturalness, nor sites of Community interest – reads the press release – and will extend, with the transfer of motorcycle at reduced speed for only one passage a day, for about 70% on asphalt along ordinary roads, 20% on agrosilvopastoral roads (dirt roads, inter-estate, etc.) and for about 10% on pathways. ”
The Mountain Community also specified that by virtue of the regional legislation relating to events of this type, the organizers, in addition to producing extensive documentation and having collected the authorizations of the owners of the funds involved in the race, also presented a recovery plan and maintenance with a security deposit for an amount close to 100,000 euros functional to restore the damaged funds as well as mitigate any problems that have arisen.
The words of the mayor
«The ISDE 2021 Enduro World Championship must represent an opportunity to relaunch some challenges – declares the president of the Mountain Community, Giovanni Palli – that have remained hidden for too long, such as that of environmental sustainability and compliance with regulations; precisely the realization, certainly complex, of a manifestation of international interest must be an opportunity to have the courage to open the Pandora’s box of the illegal practice of the transit of motorized vehicles on paths and in protected areas.
The Mountain Community of Oltrepo Pavese, declares President Palli, has built a Memorandum of Understanding, covered by economic and legal guarantees, with organizers of ISDE 2021 – he adds – these undertake to confer an economic investment (for an estimated value between 60,000 and 70,000 euros) functional to enhancing the path network of the Oltrepo Pavese Mountain Community both through extraordinary maintenance works and through recovery and updating of the signs on the paths ».
A memorandum that therefore represents an important starting point and an innovation in the interinstitutional dialogue, which has found the availability of Moto Clubs and environmental associations.
“Re-establishing, with a first memorandum, our path network, especially in the areas most exposed to improper use by those who travel by motorized vehicles, seemed to us priority number 1 – declares Palli – we are close to the conclusion of priority number 2 or ” approval of the experimental regulation for the transit of motorized vehicles for touristic purposes which involves a ring of about eighty kilometers, which saw the validation of the Legambiente and Moto Club concerned as well as the active involvement of the municipal administrations; the initiative, although experimental, will make it possible to make available a recommended route on existing roads with some peculiarities such as a rate for developing maintenance and restoration activities and the involvement of nearby accommodation facilities as well as monitoring accesses and environmental effects ” .
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