"My goal is to open the shipyards by 2024 after 53 years."
Thus the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, regarding the works for the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina.
"The Strait of Messina company - he continued - was born by law in December 1971. It is the most studied bridge".
As for the controversy regarding the seismic and wind tests linked to the project, "in the independent scientific technical committee, there is also the director of the wind tunnel in Milan, Sara Muggiasca. The bridge has already been tested in the 2000s in the wind tunnel. If the the technical-scientific committee gave a unanimous favorable opinion to the project with some recommendations, claiming that we are building a bridge that cannot resist the wind is foolish. I have learned that the higher the infrastructures are, the more resistant they are to earthquakes. Everything has been studied", explained Salvini.
"In these days the services conference will be convened, so the objective is that of Cipes approval for half the year. Here a transition will take place in which the technical project will hopefully be approved - said the managing director of the Stretto di Messina company, Pietro Ciucci - but not only this: the financial plan of the work will also be approved and the entire coverage of the needs will be verified.
This is a very important thing because unlike almost all the large works carried out in Italy, this project will have financial coverage from the beginning for the entire amount and therefore will not have to wait every year for resources to be allocated".
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