On behalf of the committee ‘No to the Link Road - Yes to sustainable mobility – MO + others’, bearing around 20 signatures, against the building of the Campogalliano-Sassuolo motorway link road 

With regard to the construction of the Campogalliano-Sassuolo motorway link road, the petitioners point out that, in addition to disregarding the environmental sustainability of the proposed route, the project is based on a range of incorrect assessments. In a nutshell, the petitioners contest the right of the regional authorities to decide without due transparency of information and in breach of EU environmental and health protection legislation. The petitioners have already proposed to the state, regional and local authorities a number of alternative road and rail options with the aim of rationalising passenger and freight traffic as well as reducing pollution and improving road safety. The petitioners are calling on the EU institutions to ask the authorities responsible to carry out a review and to update the report of the Environmental Impact Assessment, approved on 12 January 2004), while suspending the definite project plan and, in any case, postponing the start of the works (scheduled for spring 2020).