Service Area Users | Inhabitants and Travelers
The service area of A7 Motorway in Valley Scrivia has two ways to access. The first and most obvious is the A7 road itself by car, people who access this road at the moment do so to load gasoline and immediately continue with their trip. The second way to enter the service area could be by walking through the town of Vocemola on the west side or the east side (III. 57). On the east side, alsoseems to be an emergency access for cars, this access is restricted with a metal door (III. X) that will specifically allow garbage collection trucks or some other service or emergency vehicle such as an ambulance to enter. Currently, the inhabitants of Vocemola can cross from one side of the road to the other through a very narrow vehicular underpass. In short, being a service area of the A7 Motorway (which is accessed through a toll), it cannot allow other cars to access the highway in a transversal way, nor can be used for drivers to change to the opposite direction. For this reason, the inhabitants of Vocemola can enter the service area only by walking, although nowadays no inhabitant of Vocemola has any excuse or event that happens in the service area that motivates them to enter there. Given the above, we could conclude that the role of the service area nowadays has contributed to the fragility of the territory, as it is unattractive and obstructing. The aim of this thesis is to propose an intervention so that Vocemola Service Area is no longer a weakness but an opportunity. Turning it in a place of crosss connection between the east and the west of the A7 Motorway, thus creating a direct and recreational access to one of the mountains of the valley.
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