There is anger and concern over the failure to start construction work on the new Burcei-Maracalagonis road, financed and contracted for some time. And there is also anger over the speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour on the old Orientale. So the Committee recently founded in Burcei to request better connections to Cagliari and the hinterland is thinking about the first protests: the first in April with a car trip from Burcei to Gannì at thirty kilometers per hour. "To say that you just can't travel like this."
"When you think of Burcei," says Vittorio Monni, one of the members of the Committee, "you have to be aware that ours is a town of commuters who depend entirely on Cagliari and the people of Cagliari for any need: school, work, visits, shopping and, for some years, even for any conversation or complaint to the Carabinieri who have been hosted in Sinnai for years. A concept that however does not seem to belong to Anas which, with the absurd imposition of a speed limit of 30 km/h along a stretch of the old Orientale Sarda, holds the people of Burcei hostage to its delays and its paradoxical measures ."
"With this measure from Burcei, you can only travel for urgent and unpostponable commitments," adds Monni. " Getting to Cagliari is an odyssey, with travel times that can even reach an hour and a half . To be at work at 8, you leave at 6. The speed limit, in force from October 1, 2024, should have expired on April 1. Instead, another surprise: this limit has been extended to May 31."
"We are worried: the work is going slowly" , says Giovanni Zuncheddu. "We expect further extensions and periods of inconvenience. With incalculable damage in an isolated town like Burcei. The speed limit, imposed, is increasing the risk of accidents with risky overtaking that make the route extremely unsafe".
"In the meantime," Salvatore Malloru announces, "the Committee is organizing protests, civil but determined. We are also thinking of a rally of vehicles from the Burcei junction to Gannì and then leaving in a long line towards Maracalagonis: we want to demonstrate that traveling this stretch of road at 30 kilometers per hour can also be an obstacle for public transport and emergency services ."
