The ideas have been on the table for years but the solution to reconnect the pieces of the city, La Palma with Amsicora, cut by the median axis, still seems far away. The Puc, the municipal urban plan that the Cagliari administration is sharing with the city in the meetings of these weeks, proposes the idea of the roundabout again. A proposal that facilitates (but how much?) only car traffic. Residents, citizens' committees and cyclists' associations are pushing instead for a solution (yes, certainly more expensive than the roundabout) that really reconnects the two neighborhoods: a cycle/pedestrian overpass.
A hypothesis that is now also a project idea of the University of Cagliari: a solution that Cirem (Interuniversity Center for Economic Research and University Mobility, directed by Professor Italo Meloni) had identified some time ago and that was recently explored in depth with renderings and videos in Nicola Miscali's degree thesis in Architecture.
It is a structure that is completely illuminated in the evening and equipped with services and relaxation areas along the route that, starting from the cycle path on Via Fleming, begins inside the small park at the beginning of Via dei Salinieri (where the bowling alley used to be, to be clear), crosses the Asse Mediano (in front of Amsicora) and enters next to the embankment, until it reaches the La Palma district. Today, anyone who wants to go from Amsicora to Quartiere del Sole (or La Palma) has only two alternatives: use the car or the bike, but in the latter case risking being run over on Viale Poetto, which is the mandatory route for anyone who wants to go from one district to the other. On foot, however, it is impossible: in fact, you would have to cross the Asse Mediano.
"The overpass or underpass is the only solution that can guarantee the connection of neighborhoods and the safety of pedestrians and cyclists," explains Virgilio Scanu, president of Fiab Cagliari. The discussion has just begun.
