Eighty-five million euros of fuel “burned” every year by motorists to cross a hell called 554. A 12-kilometer state road – between the Quartese section of Poetto and the 130 – traveled every day by 46 thousand vehicles. Another 28 thousand turn off, clogging up Viale Marconi and Viale Poetto. The numbers are provided by Mauro Coni, a university professor in Cagliari of Roads, Railways and Airports, who quantifies the load of C02 released into the atmosphere at over 80 thousand tons. Direct damage for motorists in traffic, devastating consequences for the environment.
The plans to eliminate the six traffic lights have been in existence for fifteen years, with a financial coverage of 233 million euros. But the bureaucracy, for responsibilities that are political, does not provide answers to the request for an environmental impact assessment, blocked until 2020 at the Ministry of Infrastructure. And so the money has been diverted elsewhere (for example for the last stretch of the 4-lane road between Sassari and Alghero), or risks being lost. With all due respect to the daily expenditure of motorists in petrol or diesel along a road that is a real ecological bomb. (ed)
