At least twelve cars were damaged. Either with slashed tires or deformed rims. And these are just the numbers gleaned from a single witness: they are certainly higher and describe a carnage only beneficial to auto repair shops, the one that occurred on the Macchiareddu consortium road, where all traffic between Cagliari and Capoterra-Pula was diverted during the closure of State Road 195 due to the damage caused by Cyclone Harry.
Among the drivers who stranded on Saturday morning was Enrico Barisone, a private investigations and debt collection entrepreneur.
"A tragicomic representation of institutional inefficiency was staged," he attacks. "A puddle, which wasn't a puddle, concealed a ditch worthy of an abandoned construction site. The toll, in the space of a few minutes, was merciless: twelve cars stalled, flat tires, bent rims, stranded workers, and a real risk of fatal accidents."
It wasn't an unforeseeable event: reports had been received by CACIP since the previous evening. And, in any case, President Barbara Porru had described the road as "a disastrous one that cannot be considered an alternative" to the 195.
While someone in the offices was evidently considering what to do—calmly, very calmly, Barisone continues— "the tire dealers in Capoterra counted over fifteen damaged vehicles even before dawn the following day."
Calls to law enforcement are proving ineffective. What about Cacip?
The answer arrives, belated and embarrassing, only in the late morning of the 24th. An "intervention team": two workers, a van, and a few shovelfuls of asphalt thrown into the potholes like salt on an open wound. A patch applied not to solve the problem, but to be able to say they've done something. Is this the management of a strategic industrial area?
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
