Tiber motorway: history, cost, when it ends, length, as is done

Have passed 51 years from the day when Anas and Cisa motorway signed the agreement for the construction of a new highway, intended for Connect the port of Spezia with Northern Europe Attending the Autobrennero, and its opening to the traffic of the first stretch of the artery, which occurred recently. More than half a century to complete nine kilometers of a route which, from Fontanellato in the province of Parma to Nogarole Rocca in Veronese, should be 85 long. And which, for now, ends up in nothing, leading to the local roads.

A long story

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The story of this highway began, therefore, in the 70sshortly after the first oil crisis of history, following the Arab-Israeli war of the Kippur broke out in October ’73, brought the world economies to its knees and, in particular, the world of the car. Winter 1973-’74 was that of austerity and the former “Sundays on foot“In which the use of the private car was prohibited; of ’75 is the blockage of all the expansion of the motorway network, launched by Parliament. The Tiber (Tyrrhenian-Brenner, how the artery is baptized) ends up in the oblivion, where it will remain until 2006, therefore for over thirty years, until it is recovered by the then government led by Silvio Berlusconi. interministerial economic programming approves the first stretch project, which branches off from the A15 Parma-La Spezia motorway in Parma areafor an amount of 513 million euros to be paid by the Autocisa company (Gavio Group), in the face of an extension of the concession relating to the 15; The construction company Pizzarotti obtains the contract in 2013 of the first lot of works, worth 255 million. The bulldozers will start three years later, despite the opposition of local authorities and environmental associations, which denounce the damage caused to the territory and to the agri -food production characteristic of Parma and surroundings.

Then, nothing

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Thus we come to the present day, in which the only stretch of asphalt made, in Sissa Trecasali, ready since 2022 and never open to traffic “for checks”, has finally been made accessible. Passable, but perfectly useless, because, as has been said, the route ends up in country roads e Nothing is certain on his continuation in the direction of the Autobrennero. For the completion of the work, in fact, they would serve no less than 2.7 billion euros900 of which are borne by the State, while the remaining sum should face the Salt, a company of the Turin Milan Motorostrada Group of the entrepreneur Gavio, who took over in the management of the A15. There Tiberhowever, it is not currently inserted in the development plans of the country’s infrastructures, nor in those relating to European funds allocated for the PNRR: the risk is therefore that those nine kilometers They remain such for a long time, if not forever, a monument to a waste of resources that would have deserved a lot of more use.