Green light of the Interministerial Committee. Salvini: “There will also be the metro. Via Ai Cantieri in September”
The definitive formal passage is the so -called stamping of the Court of Auditors. Meanwhile, however, the final project of the bridge over the Strait of Messina has been approved by the Interministerial Committee for economic programming and sustainable development (Cipess). This is the maximum institutional coordination body of economic programming, with particular regard to infrastructure investments. The cost of the work, explains the Cipess in a note, is 13.532 billion euros, “entirely covered with public funding already available following the budget laws 2024 and 2025”. “The bridge will be an engineering symbol of global relevance, a demonstration of the willpower and technical competence of Italy, which has few comparisons in the world” says the President of the Council Giorgia Meloni.
The trains and the metro
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The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini exults: “I am absolute proud of the stretch of road made up to here. Now it takes the stamping of the Court of Auditors, then the goal between September and October is to leave with in construction sites”. “If you start as you are starting, the objective of the crossing between 2032 and 2033 – continues the vice premier – is what the technicians foresee. Which is also the time period in which the first train will unite Turin and Lyon, the first train will join Fortezza and Innsbruck, and the Romans will be able to cover the distance of metro C. Let’s say that for those who believe in the cabal on 20 and 32 they can be two challenging numbers”. Then the vice premier focuses on the impact of the construction of the bridge: “In the territories he changes the world. I make an example above all, there will be the Strait Metro. The bridge artifact which is less than half of the overall cost of what is a total restyling of the Messina front and Reggio area. There will be three metro stops on the Messina front that will connect every day students, commuters, workers, engineers, tourists, by a shore, to the other “.