The great waste in Battipaglia: overpass never opened, but they already use it

BATTIPAGLIA. “The children must be protected now and not when there is talk of a tragedy that could have been avoided.” It is written in a substantial photographic report on the no man’s land that has become the construction site of the Integrated Modal Interchange Center (known as “Piu Europa“, from the name of the round of funding that allowed the interventions to be started in public-private partnership ), eternal unfinished Battipaglia. The words are an eloquent caption at the bottom of the images of very young people crossing the rough railway overpass (the “big sausage”, as it was provocatively renamed by some councilors of the then opposition at the time of its launch, Anno Domini 2017) towering over the tracks that cross the central city station.
The latest dossier, the third in less than two years, resulting from yet another inspection by Sospasitalia volunteers of the Environmental Operations Unit (Noa) led by President Antonino Petrillo, was sent, on the basis of the previous ones, to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Prefecture, the Municipality, to the carabinieri of the local company, to the state police station and to the traffic police. In the photographic kit, dating back to a few days ago, there is evidence of widespread degradation out of all proportion compared to the conditions of an already advanced state of abandonment detected during the inspections of January and March 2023. The overpass that awaits Being made functional for more than seven and a half years has become a sort of bivouac: the volunteers even found a bed base and a mattress there. What was supposed to be new because it was unused already needs to be redeveloped: the wooden flooring boards have been destroyed.

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