According to the estimates - now old, they are dated 2018 - of the redevelopment project, during the winter days State Road 554 is a compulsory route for around 20 thousand motorists. In the summer, when the island explodes with tourism, they are more than double. And the travel times of this hybrid road, half ring road and half urban avenue, lengthen accordingly. Even more so if, like Thursday afternoon, there is an accident: a rear-end collision is enough to paralyze traffic up to the median axis of Cagliari.
Fourteen kilometres, six traffic lights: the Anas plan envisages spending 233 million to replace the lanterns at intersections with as many roundabouts, in order to reduce travel times. Now it takes twenty-five minutes to go from Viale Elmas to Margine Rosso at rush hour. Barring unforeseen circumstances , which are always around the corner. There is no shortage of dangers. Especially in the section without guardrails, in the Selargius area.
Here every day you test your luck by crossing the main road to go from via Sant'Anna to via Meucci , in the industrial area. Yesterday at lunchtime, in a matter of minutes, dozens of motorists first dodged father and son (returning from school, with apron and backpack) on bicycles, then another lone cyclist who performed the same pirate maneuver despite the double stripe continues.
Michele Ruffi
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