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Bridge over the Strait: government ok with project subject to agreements

2023-03-16T20:43:23.427Z


Salvini: 'historic day for all of Italy' (ANSA) The new Messina Strait Bridge project is the old one. The council of ministers approved an initial draft decree that takes time back to 2012, when construction was stopped and the company went into liquidation. In the green light, the government uses the precautionary formula "subject to agreements" and the technical aspects are still being defined. However, it starts again from the final project


The new Messina Strait Bridge project is the old one.

The council of ministers approved an initial draft decree that takes time back to 2012, when construction was stopped and the company went into liquidation.

In the green light, the government uses the precautionary formula "subject to agreements" and the technical aspects are still being defined.

However, it starts again from the final project approved 11 years ago, that of the longest cable-stayed suspension bridge in the world, 3.2 kilometres.

It will now be updated to adapt it to the latest technical, environmental and safety regulations.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, declared that "it will be the most beautiful, greenest and safest single span bridge in the world", certified by the "

The goal now is to arrive at a new executive project by 31 July 2024 and then start work by the end of that year.

The decree, according to the draft circulated in recent days, also resurrects the old procurement contracts canceled by the Monti government, starting with the one with Eurolink, the consortium led by Salini (now Webuild) which won the international tender.

At the Ministry of Infrastructure there is a model of the bridge and Salvini posed in front of it for a photo with the presidents of the regions on both sides, Roberto Occhiuto from Calabria and Renato Schifani from Sicily, at the end of a meeting on the infrastructure needs of the two territories and on the new start of the project.

For Occhiuto "the bridge over the Strait will be a great opportunity for the South,

Among those who really don't want to believe it is the Alliance Verdi e Sinistra which has organized a flash mob in protest against the bridge in front of Montecitorio.

The demonstrators carried placards that read: "a waste of resources worth 10 billion euros" and indicated how with this money, for example, 175 intercity and 500 regional trains could be purchased.

"It serves to make the armchair factory", said the deputy Angelo Bonelli contesting the provision in the draft which subtracts the salaries of the managing director of the company Stretto di Messina Spa, from the maximum limit of 240 thousand euros per year set for state managers.

The WWF also rejected the bridge due to the "very high and unsustainable environmental, social and economic-financial costs", which recalls how the area of ​​the Strait is included in two "

Source: ansa

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