“The first works will concern the first compensatory works, indicated by the Municipalities: the viability and the works that will allow to minimize, from the beginning of the activities, every impact of the construction sites of the bridge, thanks to the execution of the early services” said the managing director of the company “Strait of Messina” Pietro Ciucci, meeting the journalists in Reggio Calabria, illustrating the next steps, who will follow the registration of the Cipess resolution, relating to the construction of the bridge over the Strait.
Among the compensatory works, said Ciucci, include “the construction of construction site slopes, to avoid the interference of the traffic of the construction site vehicles with ordinary traffic; the preparation of the basic fields; the creation of water supply systems to meet construction site needs; The strengthening of the sewage system, the reclamation from the war devices, the resolution of interference with the underground services, of water, gas electricity and telecommunications, to ensure their functioning during the realization of the work “.
Furthermore, the ante operam environmental monitoring is also planned; Archaeological and geognostic investigations; realization of the compensatory works required by the Municipalities; realization of the compensatory works of the territorial and social impact. With the registration of the Cipess resolution by the Court of Auditors, the first works relating to early works will be started and at the same time the executive design in parallel for all three planning phases planned will be started. Phase 1, said Ciucci “will concern road and railway connections (entrances), whose start is scheduled for May 2026; Phase 2 will concern the creation of galleries, junctions and three new railway stations, with start of works scheduled for September 2026; Phase 3 will concern the work of crossing the Strait: towers, anchor blocks, suspension system, suspended deck, directional center ».