22/08/2025: A well-equipped beach resort with attentive, family-run management that caters to customer needs. Parking is a significant added value. Kudos also to Tonino, who manages the incoming and outgoing traffic from the main entrance with skill, experience, and innate empathy.
12/08/2025: This is a review of the lido's parking attendant.
If you think logistics engineering is the stuff of large corporations and six-lane highways, it's only because you've never met Tonino, traffic coordinator at Lido Porta del Sole. A man, a legend, a manager of traffic flows on impervious streets, where even Google Maps gives up and advises you to "park and walk."
Tonino presides over the entrance to the lido's only access road: a narrow, winding climb, likely designed by a drunken urban planner, where one-way traffic isn't a written rule but a sacred art, passed down orally and guarded by him alone. With his radio transmitter in hand—which he handles with the same deference as a surgeon with a scalpel—he coordinates the movements of every vehicle in real time between the provincial road and the parking lot below, in constant contact with his two assistants who operate in the parking lots below. When he speaks, the traffic stops. When he says "go," the cars, the wheels, the mountains, move.
We're not dealing with a simple parking attendant, but a seasonal traffic project manager, an automotive dynamics analyst with a natural predisposition for leadership. His decisions are quick, calibrated, and firm: he knows exactly when to let one car in and when to stop five. He can predict the travel time of a small car in first gear on a 14% slope like a Swiss software program. And he does it all in his head. No Excel, no sensors. Just experience and a topographical sense.
Tonino's leadership is evident even in the most critical moments: when a car starts without waiting for the OK, he brings it back to order with a single glance. When two drivers attempt a risky maneuver, he reprimands them with the calm and authority of an orchestra conductor. He never raises his voice: the asphalt itself gives him respect.
And if you think he only lets cars in and out, you're sorely mistaken. There's psychology in every gesture. When an undecided driver asks him, "Do you think I can make it up?" he doesn't respond with technical data or operating instructions. He simply says:
"If a camper with a trailer on the back made it, you can do it even with the air conditioning on."
Motivation, leadership, problem solving. No university trained him, yet he directs traffic as if he'd earned a master's degree between Harvard and the Matera roundabout.
In short: Tonino is the true operations manager of the descent to Porta del Sole, the one without whom nothing moves and no one goes down to the sea. He doesn't just park, he orchestrates.
And when you finally finish that climb, and turn around to look at him... you'll understand that yes: you will arrive home in total relaxation thanks to engineer Tonino.
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