25 October 2007

The Bridge over the Straits of Messina

The money set aside to build the bridge over the Straits of Messina will be used to construct metro lines and infrastructure in Sicily.
Anyone who states that I have to come to terms with the fact that Sicily and Italy don’t need a bridge over the Straits of Messina, giving the idea that I want this to be constructed, either aren’t familiar with the documents, and that is serious, or they are in bad faith, and that is even more serious, especially if certain positions are coming from the President of the Legambiente {Environmental Group}

To those who want the facts, I remind them that we have de-financed the bridge project, so as to finance that railway and metro work in Sicily and we are the first to know the need for that. About a billion euro was set aside for the Region to be used on the Bridge and this money has now got a final destination, with a written agreement a few weeks ago for the metro in Palermo, Catania and Messina and the connection between Agrigento and Caltanissetta.

All this has nothing to do with the ideological uproar to get rid of what we have today, a company that on its own represents a value of 150 million Euro.
The roughly 500 million Euro that we would have wasted by closing the company and paying the penalties laid down, can be put to better use by doing this construction work that everyone says they want to do and that we are working towards doing.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Competitiveness of the economic system