Stefano Tombolini, councilor for public works of the Municipality of Ancona, let’s talk about potholes. An evergreen topic: what resources will be available for road maintenance in 2025?
«We will have four lots of 900 thousand euros each for extraordinary maintenance, all financed with a mortgage, while for ordinary maintenance we will have 1 million euros coming from the Imu-Tasi fund and another 500 thousand euros of the institution’s own resources».
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The allocation arriving from the Imu-Tasi fund appears to have increased.
“We spent one million euros compared to 325 thousand last year.”
How did you manage to review the allocation?
“We have removed some resources from other expenditure items such as the maintenance of public buildings because we want to make a leap in quality on the roads.”
Are there any other changes planned that we can expect in the near future on the road maintenance front?
«A process has started with the offices and IT to remedy the lack of monitoring of the condition of the roads. We will soon organize a demonstration with Estri (a US IT giant, ed.) which has software that has already been used by Rome to develop a road mapping procedure. We asked to do a test here too. But I’ll make a premise.”
Please, explain as well.
«We will soon prepare a policy document with which we would like to establish a transversal monitoring team made up of nine people, one for each territorial participation council, who will have the task of carrying out weekly inspections and carrying out the mapping through the IT tool».
And this is the first part. But then the holes will need to be closed once mapped.
«The maintenance office will send the team on site to intervene. For extraordinary maintenance I will ask that with the money available we do not build an entire road but that we intervene in sections measuring 20 by three metres, for example. So as to go and recover the areas most in crisis.”
2024 isn’t over yet, even though we’re almost there. Will there be a way to find a last tranche of patches around the city under the Christmas tree?
«We still have to define the leftovers. I would like to be able to work on the ramp in the direction of Asse which connects via Bocconi to via della Ferrovia, as well as to the area in front of the Conerobus headquarters.”
Some time ago there was talk of some leftovers from the one million euro lot financed by the Port Authority for asphalt work in the port area in view of the G7 Health in October. How much is left in the till?
«About 100 thousand euros but with that money we will intervene in areas that will be indicated by them. Unfortunately we have not yet managed to reach an agreement for the maintenance of all those roads in the port area which are municipal but affected by intense port traffic, to divide the costs”.
