The Italian Voice

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“Canal Grande Reality“.
It is not the name of a new tv show, as it sounds. It is the new monitoring system made of 14 webcams, installed in Venice a couple of days ago along the famous Grand Canal to supervise 24/24 hours the real situation of the aqueous traffic in that important communication route of the city, in particular to control the speed and the number of boats per area.
The aim is to guarantee to the citizens and the tourists the normal circulation without traffic offences at the navigation code, which is strictly connected with the swell, of vital importance for a city like Venice which was built just onto the water.

From now on, people will be able to check the traffic along the Grand Canal visiting the website of the municipality or - I prefer this next one - of the observation system called Argos which presents, in the section called “il traffico” in the upper blue bar (you have to click there to watch the webcams), the images in rotation taken from the different areas of the channel, pointing out in yellow in the last line the number of the boats which drive above the speed limit.

The deputy mayor of Venice, Michele Vianello, assured also another useful tool for the citizens: an online forum where to talk about the problems of the aqueous traffic which will be totally open to everybody and so without restrictions or moderations, which will certainly see the active participation of the mayor as well.
Mr Vianello is sure that this monitoring system will be successful, so much that he already announced that the same system will be implemented soon at the Tronchetto Island and on the Schiavoni Shore.

The major part of the boat drivers are spoke up for this innovation, because they claim that it will bring more safety in a special area of the city of Venice which has to be safeguarded; obviously there is always a small number of boat ,drivers who thinks this monitoring system will reduce the privacy.

We will see the results, personally I strongly recommend this news item, I think it will be helpful for the work of the local police.

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