“My approach to the bridge issue has profoundly changed since we understood that our territories, evidently affected by this work, would not have been institutionally involved”. This was stated by the mayor of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Falcomatà.
“The protagonism that we hope for the communities that we represent – continues – is necessary to understand the project of an infrastructure that wants to change urban mobility, the landscape and structural physiognomy of the two banks of the Strait. Because we are forced to protect our prerogatives after the stringent requirements that, when via and Vas, the Ministry of the Environment has returned to the project. Not to mention the spoliation – he adds referring to the cohesion funds – of resources considered indispensable for the survival of our bodies, which were previously additional compared to national transfers and now they have become replacement, or worse, risk being dried up by a work that is missing his appointment with history on time. In fact, almost ten -year cadence, we return to the office with the large and cumbersome organizational machine of the bridge, through which, the announcements are wasted to profound that unauthorized effort to make us believe that, with its realization, the question of transport in the South is resolved. Nothing more false! While there is no news of high speed, high capacity, and of the work of the state road 106 for the province of Reggio Calabria, these are, indispensable infrastructures to make our territories competitive and connected, the bridge project clashes with environmental, technical, logistical and strategic limits for the economy of the maritime transport of the entire area of the Strait “.
“For this – concludes Falcomatà – in all the offices and with all the legal tools at our disposal, legitimately, we have made observations to the government, to find shared solutions and approaches, demonstrating the fact that we do not undergo ideological retailed but we act in the exclusive interest of the communities we represent; But if this does not happen, we will not have alternatives except that of mobilization, together with the network of associations, civic movements and those parties who think that this drift must be responded with courage and resistance ».
