In 1995, buses from Salerno to Felitto, a town in the Calore Valley, took about an hour and forty minutes; in 2020, the same distance takes just over two hours.
For over 10 years, along the Provincial Road 488, in the section that leads from Castel San Lorenzo to Felitto, the presence of a landslide has caused the carriageway to be narrowed, posing a danger to road traffic and diverting the route of scheduled buses along inter-farm roads.
“On the one hand, a landslide that has lasted for over a decade and is getting worse over time,” says lawyer Pierluigi Morena, from the legal office of Codacons, “on the other, the carelessness and indifference of the provincial body, a situation of mala gestio no longer tolerable."
Yet – continues the association's lawyer – the Highway Code precisely establishes the powers and duties of the road owners, prescribing that the road owners must guarantee the safety and fluidity of traffic by providing for the maintenance, management and technical control of the efficiency of the roads and their appurtenances.
Codacons has warned the Province of Salerno asking for immediate restoration intervention, on this point the association has presented a request to see the documents on inspections and possible financing.
A complaint was then filed with the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Salerno for any omissions by the manager. The association highlighted all the inconveniences suffered by the citizens, such as a dangerous situation for public safety, a serious difficulty for users in connections, the difficult alternative routes - along inter-farm roads - of public transport, the difficulties for economic and productive activities of the small towns in the Calore valley.
“Development is a mirage in the internal areas,” says Professor Enrico Marchetti, president of Codacons, “the problems are in Felitto and in nearby Sacco, which for years has not been reached by public transport due to the provincial road being in poor condition. The institutions are far away and have abandoned the small towns to themselves, it is time to reverse the trend!”.
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