arrived today from Senate the green light to decree bridge in the straitit becomes law. There are 103 votes in favor of the device that, in the next few hours, will be in the Official Gazette. “Here Senate – writes the Minister of Infrastructure on Twitter, Matthew Salvini – to the parts of the No we respond with the Italy of the Yes”.
O project related to bridge over the Strait of Messina follows the pattern of the “suspension bridge”. Huge investments planned in Calabria and Sicily to improve infrastructure and improve the territorial network. The current design includes a six-lane carriageway, three in each direction, with two rail tracks. The expected length of the central span is 3,300 meters and that of the deck is 60.4 meters. The bridge towers over the Strait will be 399 meters high while the central navigable channel will be 65 meters high, to allow the transit of large ships. Structural precautions are also foreseen from the seismic point of view.
The current project of bridge that will unite Messina AND Villa San Giovanni guarantees resistance to earthquakes equal to 7.1 on the Richter scale. At the same time, writes MIT, “the billion-euro rail and road works have already started in Calabria and Sicily. These are unprecedented investments.”
“With the conversion of this decree into law – commented the senator of Forza Italia, Licia Ronzulli – we are ideally laying the cornerstone of a strategic work resulting from the vision of Silvio Berlusconi, a man capable of imagining the future. Our president has been talking about it since 1994, and 25 years later many have had to admit that Sicily and Calabria deserve a stable connection. That’s why we want to dedicate this vote and this country’s success to him”.
Source: IL Tempo

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