VDP Srl

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The project focuses on the alteration and improvement of SRT (Regional Road) 68 “Val di Cecina” in the section between Bivio della Steccaia and Saline di Volterra belonging to the municipalities of Riparbella, Guardistallo (Casino di Terra) and Montecatini Val di Cecina in the Province of Pisa.

The project overall objective is to achieve a higher quality of vehicular traffic and a better level of road traffic safety. Val di Cecina Regional Road is currently characterized by inadequate carriageway width, lack of embankments, irregular elevation profile and absence of sufficient visibility which affects overtaking safety. Therefore the project involves road width expansion and the upgrade of specific sections in order to ensure bending radius reduction.

Nearby streams and ditches the project plans the improvement (or the construction for sections belonging to the variant) of civil structures connected to road management and activity, enabling the correct water flux towards Cecina river bed.

PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS

Regarding the natural aspect, the road upgrade and the new section construction (variant stretch) do not entail deforestation works, diversion of existing watercourses or other effects involving a substantial impact on the habitat of the present vegetation species.

For what concerns the track in question, it is evident that the most critical issues are localized in areas involving the streams and tributaries of Cecina river. The design of vegetation solutions is based on the compensation principle, for which soil removal in certain areas has to be balanced by the formation and regeneration of plant formations, increasing the natural character of the territory.

Moreover the acoustic study established no need for mitigation measures, such as noise barriers, that would have been extremely harmful for the landscape, although the implementation of draining and sound-absorbing asphalt along with direct intervention on neighbouring buildings is suggested.