Soft Mobility
The TEEM Executive Plan not only included the construction of an infrastructure-system combining 32 kilometres of motorway layout, but 38 related ordinary road works and 15 works to upgrade existing municipal and provincial roads. The Concessionaire Tangenziale Esterna has, in fact, worked hard to achieve its goal of providing a significant boost to the development of so-called “soft mobility” through the construction of a new network (30 kilometres) of cycle and pedestrian routes. Existing routes of this type have also been restored.
The aim of the interventions was the further enhancement of the area covered by the infrastructure. Moreover, the new cycle and pedestrian routes were designed to create links between existing routes (some of which were upgraded) in order to take ideas from paper to reality or to complete cycle and pedestrian circuits that cross and create networks with areas of natural and landscape value, and to encourage the enjoyment of historical and cultural assets in the area (monuments, villas, farmsteads, etc.).
The interventions, some of which are included in the development of the nine Special Environmental Projects carried out at the same time as the infrastructure-system, are aimed at enhancing areas, mainly characterised by the presence of waterways that are not necessarily affected by the project infrastructure and are even hundreds of metres away from the motorway route under construction.