
this morning, the portal www.virgilio.it the article below that raise awareness public about a year each.
Ponte, the eighth wonder of the world phoenix
starts again the lure of the construction of the Great Work that has divided politicians, environmentalists, intellectuals. Already spent 160 million euro for the Stretto di Messina
intentions of its proponents in the span of only three kilometers linking the "Continent" to Sicily will be the eighth wonder of the world. It has been been allocated one billion three hundred million Fas funds (Fund underdeveloped areas) to share the final design work. Mai no infrastructure has been so mistreated. The Bridge on the Strait of Messina exists only on maps, yet the Stretto di Messina (bandwagon kept alive thanks to the votes in the last term determinants of Antonio Di Pietro) advice and pays salaries of gold - according to some calculations - have already spent 150 million to 160 million euro ( 93.33 of which dissipated over the last 6 years). Peanuts, compared to 6 billion and an 36 million euro, the realization of which will be entrusted to a consortium of companies, in which Impregilo does the lion's share with 45%.
Not long ago it was learned that the design solution of the colossus of concrete that would reduce the thirty minute trip on a ferry that separates Villa San Giovanni and Messina - disputed by environmentalists because it does not cover key issues such as movements of the sirocco wind and seismic conditions - has been prepared in part by hand on sheets of notebook paper, in spite of the ultra modern models and simulations in three dimensions.
Ponte
According to favor the bridge would give enormous visibility interactional. Would be for his majesty unique tourist attraction. Give breath to the local economy particularly lifeless, with a series of positive externalities by promoting the recruitment of local workers for many years, led by a significant effect on the food, service between the two sides.
Bridge
no environmental impact at the deturperà profiles of the coast of one of the most beautiful in the world hotspot, a region that also has two seismic faults in constant motion. Only in Calabria is volatile, with excavations, more than four million cubic meters of earth and rock, in a place where "undertakings" in the odor of the Mafia are specialized in their construction (as shown by the investigations of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate ). In light of the disastrous road conditions, the priorities for the modernization of the road system would others. It would be a dis-economy and accounts for yet another white elephant.
Camera bureaucratic procedures to revive the pharaonic infrastructure - will spend at least 70 months before the first stone at all - another casting controversy are coming, are absolutely indispensable, between Scylla and Charybdis.
Posted on 23/01/2009 in The Chronicle