“What was announced by the MIT is by no means a full green light. The opinion of the Superior Council of Public Works on the Strait Bridge project would have been released with numerous and substantial observations, which evidently heavily influence its outcome”.
Angelo Bonelli states this in a note. “It is no coincidence that the CEO of the Stretto di Messina company himself rushed to assure that technicians and designers will examine the observations accompanying the opinion to provide a prompt technical response. It is proof that behind the triumphalistic announcement there remain critical issues that are far from overcome. It is a practice already seen with the opinion of the Scientific Committee, with the EIA procedure and with the ruling of the Court of Auditors: the government shouts for the green light every time, while prescriptions and complaints are postponed and hidden under the carpet. Until To date, the Strait of Messina Society has not been able to refute any of the complaints and requirements raised. Yet it continues to force a work with shameful costs, through tailor-made regulations and without having resolved the environmental, seismic, structural and economic doubts. The MIT now has the duty to immediately and fully publish the opinion of the Superior Council of Public Works, allowing everyone to know in detail the observations that accompany the Assembly’s pronouncement. Enough propaganda and hidden acts: the Italians have the right to know the truth about the Bridge”, concludes the deputy of the Green and Left Alliance and co-spokesperson for Green Europe.
M5S: “There remains no evaluation of alternatives”
«The green light from the Superior Council of Public Works for the executive phase of the bridge over the Strait does not move one iota two fundamental issues that Salvini, Meloni and the entire group responsible for the collapse of our infrastructure do not want to resolve. The first concerns precisely the executive phase, which must be considered as a whole, and not in individual phases as Salvini would like: to date there is no overall executive project. Above all, however, an adequate evaluation of the alternatives to this work is lacking. Starting from the strengthening of dynamic crossing, much less expensive and much more achievable in decent times. Everything else is fake jubilation on the part of Salvini, who still has to explain to us in detail what the real costs of this infrastructure are, whose bandwagon continues to burn money without it having yet been possible to cordon off even one square meter of construction site.” Agostino Santillo, vice-president of the M5S in the Environment Committee of the Chamber, said this in a note.