“The operations relating to the load tests of the latest segments of ‘Gallic – Gambarie’, the road artery that unites the city with the municipalities of the entire Gallic valley, and through which citizens and users will be able to benefit from a fast, safe and high -safe connection line with an attractive impact, with the sea and the mountain connected for a few minutes of travel” – is what the mayor declare Giuseppe Falcomatà and the deputy mayor with delegation to the roads of the metropolitan city Carmelo Versace.
The ‘Laraghi’ viaducts and ‘soracononi’, scaffolding with corten steel, are both with two spans and measure about 90 meters each. For the load tests, they were loaded with multiple configurations, for a total of 12 trucks of 40 tons each, overall almost 500 thousand kilograms of load.
Compared to the works during the completion by the Viability sector of the Metropolitan City, with the coordination of the manager Lorenzo Benestareexecuting company AV, the mayor Falcomatà and his deputy Versace add: “The testing of the two viaducts, will bring in the short term to the conclusion of the works of the last stretch of a strategic infrastructure, which is already changing the face of the Reggina mountain, enhancing their landscape beauties and tourist vocation, through an infrastructure intervention that will allow to further reduce the travel time to the valley of the Valley. of Santo Stefano, defining a linear route of 600 meters and thus bypassing the sequence of curves of a km and 400 meters that accompanied the road to the crossroads of podargons “.
“We definitively and completely return to the community – they add – an extraordinary work, a truly important infrastructure for the territory, unique in its kind, capable of joining the sea of the Strait to Aspromonte, By revolutionizing the mobility system in our area forever, and in particular that of the area, on which four pre -promothned municipalities fall, which have been waiting for a modern and more accessible way of communication for decades. Thanks must be addressed to the road sector of the metropolitan city, to the engineers, to the technicians, to the workers. Gallico Gambarie is a work that this territory had been waiting for practically for 40 years. The efforts of many generations have focused on it, for a realization process that involved multiple bodies, more administrators, more associations and above all thousands of citizens. To those who fought, to all those who contributed must be said thanks. And above all to those who in the last two years, managed to characterize this work with a decisive acceleration of the works that allows us today to announce the now imminent completion of the infrastructure “.