Green light of the room and transport commissions of the Chamber to the amendment of the speakers to the Infrastructure Decree that inserts the Strait company of Messina in the list of qualified contracting stations. It is, comments the MIT, of “a further step towards the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina. This measure aims to accelerate a priority and pre -eminent national interest “. The standard, explains the Ministry, follows what has already been established for realities such as the Company Infrastructure Milan Cortina 2020-2026 and Jubilee 2025, “guaranteeing a faster process”. The simplification introduced by the amendment, the MIT continues, “allows the company to operate as a contracting authority In the planning, entrusting and execution phase of public contracts functional to the completion of the activities and tasks assigned to the same and to proceed with greater speed to carry out the activities necessary for the construction of the bridge “.
The bridge over the Strait of Messina “15 years ago would have been a great work of non -decisive engineering, because it would have been an extraordinary bridge which, however, united two back infrastructure realities, Sicily and Calabria”, said Salvini, during the event “Italy and Japan”: a bridge between Europe and Asia for the mobility of Futurò, organized by Il Sole 24 hours at the Italian Pavilion. If 15 years ago it would have been non -decisive, “today it would be a non -economic sense not to make the bridge” because “we are investing 20 billion in Sicily and 20 billion in Calabria for the modernization of the road and railway network”, added Salvini. “Today there are the construction sites open for high at speed between Palermo, Catania and Messina and there is the ongoing design to get from Salerno to Reggio Calabria: today a freight train to cross those three kilometers takes 180 minutes, at the operational bridge become 15,” concluded the MIT holder.