Keeping all this space in proper conditions is no joke. Responsibility is vested in Sector III of the Environment Department that ensures ongoing monitoring with sophisticated technologies combined with help from the populace. Interventions are quite varied. Ordinary maintenance ensures overall recovery and repair of damaged surfaces and is a mandatory annual item of expenditure for the Administration.
Extraordinary maintenance is financed with loans.
It covers more complex actions requiring ad hoc projects subject to special approval. These include complete remaking of a sidewalk or pedestrian platform covering, for instance. Latter type interventions have been completed recently in corso Francia and corso Grosseto from via Oxilia to the Stura river bridge. Many operations require relaying macadam after maintenance by co-users such as Public Waters, Municipal and State Electricity Boards, Urban Transports, Telecommunications and the Gas Company. These amount to some 7 to 8 thousand non programmable interventions a year caused by sudden breakdowns or defects.