(Tiper Stock Exchange) – The Council of Ministers meeting today for the approval of the fiscal delegation gave the green light also to the so-called Bridge Decreewhich provides for the immediate restart of the planning and implementation process Bridge over the Strait of Messina. The MIMS announces it with a note at the end of the CdM.
Thus the Strait of Messina Society was rebornwhich will have a new e more modern governance. A solid one is foreseen – it is underlined – participation of the MEF and MIT, confirming the importance that the government attaches to the stable link between Calabria and Sicily. And a representative of the two regions will sit on the BoD of the new company.
Specifically, we start again from the final project of 2011 – explains the MIMS – that will be adapted to the new technical standards, safety and environmental. The new authorization process will have to stamp the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world (about 3.2 kilometres) which will represent the flagship of the Italian engineering art.
The minister Matthew Salvini wanted to underline that “it is a strongly green work” which “will make it possible to reduce carbon dioxide pollution, as well as allowing a substantial saving of time and money to all those who have to cross the Strait”.
The bridge – added the deputy prime minister – will also “a major tourist attraction” and a “driver for infrastructural growth” for the regions of Sicily and Calabria.