(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 6 – Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that the government’s planned bridge across the Strait of Messina should be in use in 2032 or 2033 with work on it set to start in the autumn after the project was approved by the Cipess economic planning committee.
“If we keep going as we have started, the goal is to be able to cross the bridge between 2032 and 2033, which is what the engineers predict,” Salvini told a press conference.
“Now the stamp of Court of Auditors is needed, but I count on starting with construction sites, works and expropriations between September and October”.
The minster added that the government will be vigilant against mafia infiltration of the project “24 hours a day”.
“Countering any attempt of infiltration will be our raison d’être,” he said.
“We are all adopting protocols with the interior minister as we did for Expo (Milano 2015) and the (2026 Milano Cortina Winter) Olympics.
“We have to watch the whole supply chain so that it is impervious to ill-intentioned people.
“If you don’t build the bridge because the mafia and ‘ndrangheta exist, then we won’t do anything anymore,” he added. (ANSA).
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“If we keep going as we have started, the goal is to be able to cross the bridge between 2032 and 2033, which is what the engineers predict,” Salvini told a press conference.
“Now the stamp of Court of Auditors is needed, but I count on starting with construction sites, works and expropriations between September and October”.
The minster added that the government will be vigilant against mafia infiltration of the project “24 hours a day”.
“Countering any attempt of infiltration will be our raison d’être,” he said.
“We are all adopting protocols with the interior minister as we did for Expo (Milano 2015) and the (2026 Milano Cortina Winter) Olympics.
“We have to watch the whole supply chain so that it is impervious to ill-intentioned people.
“If you don’t build the bridge because the mafia and ‘ndrangheta exist, then we won’t do anything anymore,” he added. (ANSA).
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