“I read what was declared by Prof. Francesco Russo regarding high speed and I feel like reassuring him and the Calabrians on the alarm he launched. I know and appreciate the competence of the professor, with whom we also had the opportunity to deal precisely on the AV project. What was reported, however, is not founded in the precise intentions and programming actions of the Ministry right by Matteo Salvini”. So the senator of the League, Tilde MinaSi, Which with a note responds to the interview with the teacher of the Mediterranean University on AV Salerno-Reggio Calabria.
“The maps contained in the EU Regulation 2024/1679 – continues the Senator – provide a photograph of the trans -European network of transport (TEN -T) and of the interventions under construction at the time of the adoption of the same regulation. IThe Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, through Minister Salvini himself, has repeatedly confirmed the goal of getting the high speed in Reggio Calabriaso as to minimize travel times from Reggio to Rome, compatibly with the economic and transport of investments “.
“This goal – continues MinaSi – finds confirmed, lastly, in the program agreement between MIT, MEF, the Regions, RFI, Anas and the Strait Society of Messina, signed last week, which contains a specific commitment of RFI to the completion of the route from Gioia Tauro to Reggio, in order to guarantee an adequate capacity for the traffic levels based on the final project of the bridge over the Strait of Messina”.
“On the other hand – underlines the senator – Just the bridge could not find its full realization, as a strategic infrastructure for the South and Italy, without the fast connections on the mainland. The work, of which the Professor himself is on the supporter, will itself be an attractor of other infrastructure investments in Calabria and Sicily, therefore, given the times expected for its construction, it would not be absolutely admissible and imaginable that for the AV SA-CC it can be expected even until 2050 “.
“It is clear – he says – that we are still behind, and certainly not because of this government, but of those who preceded us and that, I must detect, belonged to the reference area of the same Russian professor, who was also councilor for transport of the region with the center -left. Unfortunately, so far those who have governed before us had not produced anything in terms of AV in the South, therefore we had to start again almost from scratch, even with the designs. in the program agreement with RFI and will finally lead to the expected results “.
“In any case – concludes MinaSi – I myself will continue to supervise because the promised or ongoing investments and designs are respected. The interest is common, and it is to modernize our South, Calabria and Sicily. And we will not allow it to work in a different direction”.