The double-sided sidewalk is born in Vomero

Nin recent times, one of the problems that most afflict the Neapolitan hillside district of Vomero It is determined by the presence of numerous landslides along the sidewalks.

This forces pedestrians and motorists into a real slog, waiting for maintenance work that is requested repeatedly but which is then slow to be carried out.

The complaint comes from Gennaro Capodanno, president of the Comitato Valori collinari, former president of the Vomero district, who has long been reporting to the public administration the inconveniences suffered by passers-by and users of two- and four-wheeled vehicles due to the disastrous state of many roads in the hilly municipality, full of potholes and depressions, also through a group founded on Facebook with the emblematic title “Buche partenopee: vedi Napoli e poi…cadi”, which has over 1.800 members -. Among these roads there is also via Morghen, one of the most beautiful and ancient roads in Vomero which has, however, long been in a state of degradation and abandonment, reported several times without any operational feedback from the competent municipal offices.

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“This morning – Capodanno emphasizes – , as reported to me by some residents, finally on the sidewalk in front of the town hall, near the intersection with Via Scarlatti, we saw the workers of the company commissioned by the municipal administration for an intervention aimed at eliminating a depression that had been reported in a section of that sidewalk. But instead of removing the affected section of paving, in porphyry cubes, eliminating the damage by leveling the sub-base and finally repairing the cobblestones, they limited themselves to pouring black asphalt, of the type usually used for roadways. A real patch-up, which made more than one person turn up their noses for work carried out in a manner that was, to say the least, questionable and with results that were a real eyesore.”

“So – Capodanno jokes bitterly – the ancient Vomerese road has been transformed into a real double-faced artery, with a checkerboard-like pavement, partly in gray cubes and partly in black asphalt. A new model of street furniture, aesthetically, to say the least, unpleasant, which we hope will not be exported elsewhere”.

In the Capodanno affair, he requests the intervention of the competent offices so that the appropriate and necessary works can be carried out quickly, aimed at making the pavement along via Morghen uniform, to be carried out by restoring the original one in porphyry cubes, thus eliminating the asphalt pouring, but also for a more careful surveillance in order to avoid, something that unfortunately has already been recorded and has been reported in the past, that also in other streets, to be subjected to maintenance works, the same methods are operated.