Naples – The Naples you don't expect, the city of major events and festive public transportation, is about to become a permanent reality. In the wake of the extraordinary turnout recorded during the long Immaculate Conception weekend, Mayor Gaetano Manfredi is forcefully relaunching his plan to drastically reduce private vehicle access to the city's beating heart.
On the sidelines of the celebrations for the Immaculate Conception in Piazza del Gesù, Manfredi made his intentions clear: "Our goal is to reduce traffic in the city center and car access. It's a progressive process that we will undertake as the public transportation efficiency improvements continue as they are currently being implemented."
Boom in users and a turning point in transport
The real test was the extension of the operating hours of subway lines 1 and 6, a trial that exceeded all expectations. In particular, Line 6 achieved "great results with a huge number of riders," a fact that the City Council interprets as a green light to tighten the restrictions.
"We are gradually moving closer to the possibility of starting to close off part of the historic center," the Mayor insisted. The strategy will not be punitive, but based on structural improvements: "We will work on local parking and ensure fewer cars in the center." The goal is clear: to make using the subway and public transportation more convenient and faster than traveling by car.
Events: balancing attractiveness and livability
The Immaculate Conception long weekend opened with a masterstroke: the X Factor finale in Piazza Plebiscito on December 4th. This event, combined with the influx of Christmas tourists, put pressure on urban logistics.
Manfredi emphasized the importance of a delicate balance: “In everything we do, we always try to maintain a balance between events, which are a major attraction, and the need to ensure livability.”
For the administration, every major opportunity serves as a test: "Every opportunity also teaches us how to maintain what has worked while addressing the causes of inconvenience." The positive results of nighttime transportation appear to have provided the most important lesson, paving the way for an increasingly car-free Naples, moving toward sustainable and efficient mobility.
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The worst mayor of Naples
BUT NOBODY UNDERSTOOD SO GOOD ABOUT CA RICOTT.
Start throwing out the Roma and black beasts who are destroying the city!!
Organize bus and Circumvesuviana services for the province and suburbs first.
We citizens should make the revolution
Parking
Limited Traffic Zones
Preferential and provincial lanes outside the center with their fucking cars!!!!
Pothole-filled roads etc. need to be fixed.
Mr. Manfredi, since you work miracles, see if you can fill a few potholes inside the city and on the outskirts.
Will it build subways with trains every 5 minutes, 24/7 like in all civilized cities?
Put controls at the entrances to the stations... the Metro, and the Vesuviana... and you'll see how it works with the money used to make tickets.
Retire
Puozz passa' nu guaio manfre
So, are we going back to the stagecoach?
That is, does it make them work?
Having read the article, the usual nonsense from our ILLEGAL LITTLE CRIMINAL
https://youtu.be/3DsH8GsgZYo
We don't want Via Napoli anymore
The most disgusting administration of the last 40 years
Yes na lot manfredi
Oh so they exist?
Vincenzo La Marca neither
Roberto Otero subsidized public housing for the Roma... what are we talking about?
Aniello Tufano miracles are for his brother
Omm it's cheeky, scurnacchiat, vatt a cucca munnezz
You need to think about keeping the city clean, and not putting any more obstacles in the way of the Neapolitans. You disgusting, greedy piece of shit.
The most incompetent mayor ever. And a Ummerdian to boot.
If they worked badly before, now with Manfredi's intervention they won't work anymore.
Naples has gotten worse since it was administered by this government...dirtier, streets worse than mule tracks, insufficient public transport, non-existent greenery.
And even now at Christmas it's decorated like a piece of junk...
After the salary increase and the money from the PNRR they should just be kicked out with a big foot on the back
But how much bullshit…..
It's better that he goes because as mayor he was of no use, retire because you'll make a better impression.
It's interesting to see how Mayor Manfredi is trying to reduce traffic in downtown Naples, but I'm not sure people will agree to abandon their cars. We'll have to see if public transportation works as well as they say.