Traffic in tilt and kilometer queues throughout the day yesterday at the Rende motorway entrance. Kilometers and ranks of interminable cars also towards Montalto Uffugo. It is not new nor surprises much. For years, it has been often written about the situation just described. Yesterday even more, especially in the early hours of the morning and then immediately after 13.30 due to the bitumination works scheduled in the city.
Traffic further slowed also due to the presence almost nothing of urban police in that area and to garrison the road network. Interventions are urgent. Such as if not those announced, allocated and financed by the central government and supported by the Calabria Region which would have allowed, if made in time as announced, a new city entrance and a turning point for traffic for the city, for the entire area and above all for the Thousands of cars and trucks that, daily, pass through Rende and for Rende. On 8 October, the prefectural commissioners of Rende, Santi Giuffrè, Rosa Correale and Michele Albertini, approved with a joint resolution the scheme of convention of the intervention called “accessory works preparatory to the construction of the motorway junction in Settimo di Rende At km 250+000 of the A2 A2 of the Mediterranean and of the Settielto Uffugo Settimo railway station. This will be signed with the Calabria Region and with the Municipality of Montalto Uffugo.
In the document they explain that the implementation of the important infrastructure work by Anas Spa will allow to improve and facilitate access to the city of Rende, the primary director of the development of the Cosenza urban area, and to enhance the connection with the industrial area e with the university area of Arcavacata. “All this in order to achieve a significant lightening of the remarkable volumes of traffic which, currently, pass through the existing four -age motorway junction”, it was said in those days.
