«Over a month later from the meeting in the Prefecture, in the presence of the Prefect as well as all the parties involved involved, Region, Metropolitan City, Anas and Civil Protection, it is necessary to highlight how The dossier presented by the Metropolitan City is of no use, for an amount of over 30 million euros only concerning the estimated damages for the different floods that have hit our territory».
This is what the deputy mayor says with delegation to the roads of the metropolitan city Carmelo Versace. “None of the bodies in charge of the table at that venue – continues Versace -, except for the Prefect Vaccaro, he felt the need to put in place resolutive activities to the problems raised. The meeting should have given impulse to receive that necessary support from all the actors involved to respond definitively to the numerous requests of the many mayors of our metropolitan city. In recent months there have been the interlocutions with the Calabria Region and with the Ministry of Transport to try to find support, travels were of no use in order to create better and careful planning. The fact that nobody feels the need to respond to the alarm cry of a territory that cry numerous deaths that follow one another day after day on the streets appears singular. Following these events, the measures that the Metropolitan City has taken for the safety of its fellow citizens, sometimes even with orders for closing road axes that if not restored safely in the shortest possible time, may still cause inconvenience to the entire citizenship. Not to mention the conditions of the rivers, the lack of care and maintenance increases the hydrogeological risk and can favor floods and floods “.
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