Two months of disruption to complete a long-awaited project and secure one of Capoterra's most critical traffic intersections. Work directed by ANAS (National Highway Agency) will begin on Monday at the junction between Provincial Road 91 and the new State Road 195, resulting in the closure of the entire road, with inevitable repercussions on travel in and out of the town. Thousands of cars, as well as public transportation and municipal waste collection vehicles, will be forced to take alternative routes, which will inevitably lengthen the journey.
To reach or leave Capoterra, drivers will have to use alternative routes, which from the Sant'Angelo intersection will lead to the Agriacantus intersection or the Fenicottero roundabout, thus bypassing the construction site. It will also be possible to use the stretch of the new Sulcitana highway inaugurated in recent months, which leads to the composting plant area, as well as the road leading to Poggio dei Pini.
"The work is now urgent," Mayor Beniamino Garau emphasizes. "We're talking about a major intersection, traveled daily by countless residents who are well aware of the critical issues and dangers of that stretch, which remained incomplete after the opening of the new State Road 195." The city administration had asked Anas to evaluate the possibility of keeping at least one lane open, but the request was rejected. "Unfortunately," Garau explains, "the need to also work on the drainage canal below will require the complete removal of the roadway, which will therefore completely block the provincial road. We ask residents to be patient; the work is solely to restore road safety."
The goal is to eliminate the sharp bend on Provincial Road 91, a sort of chicane that creates difficulties, especially for heavy vehicles, which are forced to almost stop to negotiate it. "For drivers, the risk of head-on collisions is constant, because the shape of the bend forces them to move into the other lane," explains Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Public Works Silvia Sorgia. "The work will cause inconvenience, but it is deemed essential to improve the safety of a road used daily by thousands of people. The work is expected to be completed before Christmas."
