In recent days the municipal council of the City of Cassano All’Ionio was held among the points approved by majority there is also the one relating to the construction of the Sibari-Coserie (Rossano) section of State Road 106, the main road route of the Calabrian Ionian coast which also affects Basilicata and Puglia.
Already in June, as part of the decision-making services conference procedure, the Municipality of Cassano All’Ionio, represented by the Mayor Giovanni Papasso, had expressed a favorable opinion on the project in question on the condition that the request formulated relating to the maintenance in project for the adaptation of State Road 534 towards the sea.
“The project – explained the mayor in this regard Giovanni Papasso – refers to the implementation of interventions aimed at strengthening the Calabrian section of the Ss 106 Jonica, an infrastructure that represents a fundamental corridor for the socio-economic development of the regions it passes through (Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria), as well as all of Southern Italy and the entire nation and which is in fact included in the list of strategic infrastructures. The construction of the infrastructure – he reiterated in conclusion – is also a fundamental element for the socio-economic development of the Cassano community”.
A point of view espoused by the entire majority who, during the council’s work, took note of the technical-economic feasibility project drawn up by Anas and made available to the organization precisely at the time of calling the decision-making services conference and whose main interventions they concern the construction of a new infrastructure of approximately 32 kilometres, of which only 4 kilometers concern the municipality of Cassano.
In detail, the new route of the Ss 106, which includes 9 junctions, 28 viaducts for a total of approximately 4.5 kilometers and an artificial tunnel of approximately 1.3 km in the territory of the Municipality of Corigliano-Rossano, develops in a variant compared to to Ss 106 Radd. existing, along an intermediate corridor located between the latter and the old megalot 8. The infrastructure (after the town of the Municipality of Corigliano-Rossano) develops in parallel with the Metaponto-Reggio Calabria railway line, separating from it in the Sibari area, to then reach the Ss 534, which is upgraded to a category B road “main extra-urban road” with four lanes, two in each direction. The route then continues along State Road 534, without interruption, up to the Sibari junction, the southern terminal of the Sibari-Roseto Capo Spulico megalot currently under construction, thus marking the end of the intervention.
At the end of the work and the related discussion, the civic assembly confirmed and ratified the opinion given by Mayor Papasso in the decision-making services conference last June and, in fact, approved by majority the project of the Sibari-Rossano section of the Ionian State Road 106 also giving a favorable opinion on the related urban planning variant and the application of the pre-arranged constraint on expropriation for the areas affected by the intervention, delegating to the managers of the “Public Works” and “Urban planning” to ensure the fulfillment of the consequential acts. Finally, considering the urgency and importance of the issue, the resolution of the City Council was declared immediately executable.