A shower of billions – 18.5 to want to be precise – invested by the Ministry of Infrastructure in Calabria. “He has no precedents in Italian history”, assures Matteo Salvini, who arrived in these parts to raise the curtain on the election campaign of an ambitious league. Infatic tones, useful for loading the troops of the Carroccio, less to make those who observe with the necessary detachment of being in front of a turning point.
The vice premier underlines the allocation of almost 4 billion for the 106 Jonica state road, “forgetting” but to specify what will be of the stretch south of Catanzaro and up to Reggio Calabria; He speaks of the A2 motorway, but for the only modernization of the Cosenza-Alfia section, as confirmed by the government commissioner Claudio Andrea Geme, 3 billion are needed; announces the design of the high railway speed up to Reggio Calabria. A novelty, but without certainties: too many announcements heard so far on this work, as many of the disappointed expectations. To date, according to official and public documents, it does not exist (if the doubling of the Santomarco Paola-Cosenza gallery is excluded) a path of high speed below Praia a Mare. As for the crossing of the greenhouses – always mentioned yesterday by Salvini and designed in the 1960s to connect Soverato to Tropea -, we are still in front of a juniper of halfway strokes, suspended construction sites and ongoing administrative appeals. From 1966 to today just under 40 kilometers have been opened on the 58 total of the ridge.
The project of the Bridge of the Strait remains in the background. Futuristic work, determining to bring Sicily closer to Calabria even more. But “weakened” if it will not be surrounded by a network of infrastructures worthy of the name.
