They always say: “The city is a construction site!”. So far so good, it means that the region is evolving and that there is work.
The “umarells” should be happy observers of all this, but instead most of the construction sites here look really bad.
The road ones last for years, they are even worthy of the Third World. The record for ugliness rightfully belongs to the one at the Massagno intersection which is truly a horrendous open-air rollercoaster, followed closely by via Mazzini in Lugano, even if the others aren't much better.
In addition to the road ones, there are also the eternal motorway ones, which show the worst in an area that records one of the highest transit volumes in Europe.
Finally, the construction ones, where there are too few construction sites that bother to make their "ceases" around construction more acceptable.
Among the more or less useful Departments that exist in this tiny Canton, there could not be one that is concerned with the regulation, aesthetics and functionality of construction sites which, by their nature, impose themselves on our eyes for a long time and remain imprinted over time in photographs, as in the case of the traffic light dangling between the Lugano Town Hall and the lake.
Come on, let's make the “umarells” happy and get a move on. A construction site should herald an improvement, create an expectation of something new, express progress and not regression.
