In Piazza Matteotti from 6 pm on Saturday night people are slowly creeping along, the cars like scales of a chimera that has four queues, one in Via Roma, the other in Viale la Plaia, the third in Via Sassari, the last in the Largo. All in line, all stopped, all in their cars .

"What's going on? Oh, here's what's going on," asks a young man, sticking his head out the window. Nothing unusual, it's the many people from Cagliari heading to shopping and a weekend aperitif who try to get a parking spot next to the train station.

Already before 8 pm, when thousands of motorists flock to the city centre for dinner time, the breaking point : the queue starts on Via Roma (often already on Viale Colombo), advances on Via Molo Sant'Agostino (both the stretch along the Arst station, but also the one coming from Scafa), blocks Via Sassari, returns to Via Roma and goes up towards the Largo. It happens all year round, but on weekends it's a disaster. And now that the Christmas holidays are approaching, even more so.

"We are studying a different road system throughout the area that will help streamline traffic," explains the councilor for Mobility and Public Works Yuri Marcialis.