Reggio Calabria and sustainable mobility: a problem of good governance

John

By John

«The strategic vision of the municipal administration, over the last 20 years, is oriented towards the functional transition from “city on the sea” to “seaside city” and implies a reconnection of the urban fabric with the waterfront and coastal production settlements, in a regulatory scenario such as the Urban Sustainable Mobility Plan (Pums). «But the governance deficits – highlights the lawyer. Filomena Iatì, former city councilor – have generated an inability to commit and spend, extending the time required for executive planning and making coordination between bodies inefficient. The case of the revocation of the CAP funds for sustainable mobility is emblematic. The inability to transform planning into operational construction sites poses a risk of infrastructural marginalization. The root of the crisis lies in the inefficiency of administrative processes, which prevent coordination between political vision and technical implementation.”
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