The electric locomotive that revolutionized the Bosphorus: Who needs a bridge? Cesare Treccarichi Journalist 10 December 2023 05:01 Facebook excitement What’s up (Photo by Roberto Monaldo / LaPresse) A bridge over the Strait of Messina has been talked about for centuries: What if the solution was a locomotive? In the meantime, let’s take a step […]
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Eternal promises From Craxi to Berlusconi, from Renzi to Prodi all the men of the Messina bridge: The announcements have already cost taxpayers more than a billion euros. And now Salvini is trying again
Connecting Sicily with Italy is an old dream. According to Pliny the Elder, it was the Romans who actually built it, albeit in their own way: we’re talking about a bridge made up of boats and barrels used to provide the passage of Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Calabria. It’s almost a fairy-tale idea, but […]
Salvini tightens deadlines for bridge over Bosphorus: “Execution project by July 2024”
The game played for the construction of a bridge over the Strait of Messina was officially reopened. The draft decree law containing “urgent provisions for the construction of a stable link between Sicily and the Continent” reached the Council of Ministers on Thursday, 16 March (reviewed at the pre-Council meeting on 15 March, ed). With […]