“The bridge will be done, I believe that at this point you cannot go back … my question is what kind of reflection they are made so that there is an infrastructure up to par and connections worthy of a work of this kind”. So Matteo Renzi, leader of Italia Viva, intervening in Messina in video connection to a conference at the University, answering a question about the realization on the bridge on the Strait. «It is a question on which I was not only secular, but extremely available. The basic problem – he adds – is contingency. For me, I told him as president of the Council in 2006, the bridge was to be done with totally European funds without removing a penny from the programming of the Calabria region and the Sicily region, I think I am one of those who will never be discussed on an infrastructure if it works and is effective.
Why not be proud of a great masterpiece of Made in Italy engineering? The point is the context, in Sicily, at this stage there is no problem on infrastructure and that’s it, there is a problem, like it or not the president Schifani, on the water, we have a water emergency this year also in Sicily, I read worrying data on the collection of oranges, we have a problem on sewers, on transport. And then if you make the bridge over the Strait and in the meantime, settling everything that has not been placed, is fine, it becomes an ace on the sleeve to be played in external communication, but if you make the bridge over the strait as a flag and in the meantime the travel times between the Sicilian cities are the ones we know, then it is evident that a great mass distraction is being made “.