It will be another exciting weekend, with construction sites and temporary traffic lights, for the thousands of beachgoers who will be traveling to the beaches along the Quartu coast and beyond. But starting Monday, everything changes. A metropolitan city ordinance requires that, to avoid impacting summer traffic, all construction sites on the coast road to Villasimius must be closed from June 1st until mid-September: from Abbanoa, to fiber optics, to Terna's work on the Tyrrhenian Link.
Work continues on the stretch from Capitana to Terra Mala these days, with excavations, traffic lights to regulate one-way traffic, and various inconveniences.
Abbanoa , which is working to build the sewer system between Marina Residence and Terra Mala, which will not only allow several old treatment plants in the coastal developments to be retired but will also divert all wastewater to the consortium's Is Arenas treatment plant, has already closed all construction sites along the coastal road. As the water company announced a few days ago, "Work will continue, but not on the roads. We still need to activate the sewer pumps for the developments, but not along the coastal road, so there will be no disruption."
The fiber optic and Terna construction sites, which were already being organized yesterday morning to be completed within the next three days, still need to be completed.
And while it's true that construction work undoubtedly makes things worse, we can't fool ourselves into thinking that everything will be rosy starting June 1st. Especially on weekends, and especially in some stretches, traffic along the coastal road is consistently heavy, causing traffic jams and disruptions. No action has been taken to improve matters, and even some adjacent developments, such as Biu Crobu and Via Melibodes, and Via Biora a Margine Rosso, are suffering. These are used as shortcuts to avoid the traffic on the provincial road, but because they are small and narrow, they are certainly not adequate to handle such a large volume of traffic.
