An extraordinary chance to create environment and landscape
The Pedemontana Lombarda motorway has been conceived, not as a “necessary evil”, but as an exceptional opportunity to recreate environment and landscape, with the ambition of encouraging a new culture in infrastructure building, which will generate positive and lasting repercussions on the region. To this end, all stakeholders in the motorway route (Region, Provinces, Municipalities, Parks) have been asked to avoid indiscriminate dispersal of resources in order to concentrate them on a single project to redevelop the landscape-environment, conceived in collaboration with the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Politecnico di Milano.
Taking advantage of the opportunity means involving all the local actors in the joint commitment to deal with the project and its impact
The EUR 150 million earmarked for mitigation (50 million) and environmental compensation (100 million) interventions will finance the accomplishment of a comprehensive design at a regional scale, constructed on the basis of localprojects: a large “park for the boundless city” extending north of Milan will be created from the restoration, enhancement and connection from east to west of the landscapes served by the motorway. Integrating the high architectural quality of the infrastructure with mitigationand environmental compensation interventions, Pedemontana Lombarda will be the most extensive environmental project (stretching over almost 700 hectares - that is, the area affected by the infrastructure) ever carried out in Italy.
