“The stadium is being built and the proponents will be able to open the building sites within the year”. The mayor of the capital said on Tuesday, Virginia Rages, in reference to the new AS Roma stadium that should be built in Tor di Valle, on the southern outskirts of the city.
The white smoke arrived five days after the arrival of the opinion of the Turin Polytechnic on the feasibility of the project. The document has so far been kept secret by the Capitoline administration, which only today called a press conference to illustrate its contents.
Professor Bruno Dalla Chiara, the contact engineer of the working group for the Polytechnic of Turin, specified that it is a question of "a conditional yes: the stadium is fine, but first a multimodal mobility offer is needed. An analysis of the construction sites will be important in the coming months”.
According to Dalla Chiara, at the moment it would be "little credible" to think that 50% of users can travel by public transport: however, the situation could change "with an investment plan on the Roma Lido and on the FL1 railway".
Road conditions and traffic are the central issues. “There is a problem – underlined the engineer – but there are also solutions. The Roman road network is already busy and today we are talking about the offer of multimodal transport. The Tor di Valle and Magliana stations must be built in a short time frame".
Dalla Chiara, however, holds back on the hypothesis of building a new bridge, the so-called Trajan's bridge: “Our client – he clarifies – asked us to analyze the project. And the bridge was not part of the project. It would still have an impact on the rest of the road network".
Raggi then added that “one billion investments will come to the city and the redevelopment of an absolutely degraded area. About 500 thousand citizens will benefit from infrastructure services because the stadium becomes a catalyst for already planned interventions. Furthermore, the cut in cubic capacity does not affect the services. We are not against works and major works, and the stadium is, but in favor of useful works that bring benefits to the city and citizens as in this case where a quadrant of the city is being redeveloped".
