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The ZTL will be active from 19pm to 6am the following day from Monday to Thursday and from 19pm on Friday until 6am on Monday

Milan, July 17 2021 - The council has established a permanent evening limited traffic zone in via Ascanio Sforza. The measure meets the needs expressed by citizens and commercial operators and discussed in Municipality 5 and at the Duc Navigli. At the same time, the pedestrian vocation of the area will be strengthened by residential areas with limited speed (30 and 15 km/h).

The new ZTL will be active from 19pm to 6am the following day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; and from 19pm on Friday to 6am on Monday. It will concern the following streets: Ascanio Sforza from the intersection with via Scoglio di Quarto to the intersection with via Conchetta, Scoglio di Quarto from the intersection with access to the underground car park in Corso Manusardi (excluded) to via Ascanio Sforza, Fratelli Bettinelli, Lagrange , Pavia in the stretch between via Ascanio Sforza and the first gap useful for turning around (for an extension of approximately 20 metres).

“For several years, residents and commercial activities have expressed the desire to improve liveability in via Ascanio Sforza, integrating the area more closely with the Darsena and Navigli system – declare the councilors Marco Granelli (Mobility), Pierfrancesco Maran (Urban Planning) and Cristina Tajani (Commerce ) –. The request was expressed more forcefully last summer, also in the context of land occupation concessions for the installation of dehors and light tables. The ZTL responds to these needs by respecting the natural pedestrian vocation of the Navigli area. Via Ascanio Sforza in the evening hours will be experienced with greater safety by everyone, commercial activities will be able to use the spaces allocated to them and residents will still be able to pass through the restricted traffic zone and park in the side streets".

In detail, the ZTL and the parking ban in via Ascanio Sforza will concern the stretch between via Scoglio di Quarto and via Conchetta and provides for the establishment of a speed limit of 15 km/h. Via Scoglio di Quarto will become a limited traffic zone in the stretch between Corso Manusardi and Via Sforza, with a speed limit of 15 km/h, maintaining the one-way direction towards Ascanio Sforza. Via Bettinelli and via Lagrange will become zone 15, the first maintaining two-way traffic, the second maintaining the current one-way direction Corso S. Gottardo; in both there will remain the possibility of parking for residents. Finally, via Pavia, in the short stretch between via Ascanio Sforza and the first turn back, will become a restricted traffic zone and a 15 km/h, two-way road.   

By way of derogation from the provision, transit and parking are permitted for residents and domiciled residents; to bicycles, rescue, emergency and police vehicles; to support vehicles for demonstrations, events and essential services, subject to authorization from the competent local police area command; to vehicles used for road cleaning and maintenance, for the time strictly necessary to carry out the operations; to taxis and vehicles used for rental services with drivers not exceeding nine seats, including the driver, directed within the ZTL, limited to passenger loading and unloading operations.

Furthermore, transit is only permitted to owners of garages or parking spaces located within the private areas whose access is from the streets included in the ZTL.

In the next few weeks the signs will be installed in order to make the ZTL active, subsequently the installation of two cameras is planned, one in via Scoglio di Quarto, at the intersection with Corso Manusardi, the other in via Pavia, at the height of the the last one goes back before the intersection with via Ascanio Sforza.