Work on the new Trentino section on the Veronese border begins

27 August 2024

Work has begun on the construction of the cycle-pedestrian link from Nago to Tor-bole, the ‘functional unit 19 of the Garda Cycle Route’: the section of the track for bicycles and pedestrians that will safely unite the Adige Valley and the ‘Torbole-Trento’ Lake Cycle Route along the Sarca River, largely using the existing secondary road network. In the meantime, there has been the first partial handover of the construction site, which concerns the preparation of the intervention areas in view of the installation of the rockfall protections envisaged in the executive project of the route.
The bulk of the work, which will be the subject of the final handover, will begin at the end of the summer tourist period. ‘The construction site,’ explains the president of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Maurizio Fugatti, ’has been planned taking into account the needs of the area, its strong tourist appeal, and in such a way as to minimise inconvenience, given that the current route on which the new track will be grafted is frequented by many mountain bike enthusiasts.
The aim is to build an infrastructure that will bring benefits for both tourism and road safety.
The objective is to build an infrastructure that will bring benefits for both tourism and road safety.
This new stretch of cycle path will be the new gateway from the north to Lake Garda. It is a work that will facilitate sustainable mobility, also in line with the growth of cycle tourism along the Northern Europe-Brenner-Pianura axis. The cycling network of Trentino counted 2.8 million passages in 2023, confirming the previous year's figures with a further increase.
This corresponds to almost 65 million kilometres cycled and 4.7 million litres of petrol saved: in terms of pollution, more than 10 thousand tonnes of CO were avoided in the atmosphere and a saving of more than 53 million euro in motorised transport. 

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