Sustainable mobility and schools in the centre (borgo san giuseppe)

PINQUA (Mission 5 Component 2 – Investiment 2.3 )

The goal of the investment is to develop new public residential buildings to address housing challenges, especially focusing on existing public assets and revitalizing degraded areas.

The emphasis is on green innovation and sustainability.

The investment consists of two main strategies, both executed without using new land:

Upgrading and expanding social housing, enhancing urban quality, improving accessibility and safety, addressing housing shortages, and boosting environmental quality.

This involves employing innovative models and tools for urban management, inclusion, and well-being.

Targeted initiatives on public residential buildings with significant strategic impact nationally.

The selection of funding proposals will be based on indicators that assess the environmental, social, cultural, urban-territorial, economic-financial, and technological-processual impacts of the projects.

The investment is financed by the Recovery and resilience plan by EUR 1.4 billion.

This project Sustainable mobility and schools in the centre is part of this investment.

The project in the Don F. Miraglio Primary School area includes widening of sidewalks and spaces in front of the school, reorganization of vehicular on-street parking to free up space to be dedicated to the inclusion of colorful child-friendly furniture and bicycle parking racks at the school entrance, use of paint on the ground to mark the spaces dedicated to the school entrance, improving the safety and aesthetics of the place, modification of the Via Giubergia Road system with a one-way street to reduce crossing traffic, gain pedestrian space, decrease car speed and increase safety.

The project in the area in front of the Secondary School includes the creation of a "traversing square" at the school entrance and the intersection of Via Rocca de Baldi and Via Borney, reorganization of vehicular on-street parking, recreational elements for kids and bicycle parking infrastructure at the school entrance, widening of sidewalks and spaces in front of the school, addition of urban greenery both as an element of traffic moderation and to reduce the "heat island" effect of asphalt and provide shaded spaces for children entering and leaving school, the use of ground paint to mark the spaces dedicated to the safe stay of kids, the placement of a covering at the school entrance, which may have different purposes, reorganization of school bus parking with the creation of a dedicated stall on the northeast side of Via Rocca de Baldi to free up the space immediately adjacent to the school entrance and be able to dedicate it to the stay of kids.