Strait of Messina, awaiting the report in Parliament: Bridge or tunnel?

ROME – The moment of truth on the stable crossing of the Strait of Messina is about to arrive. “The work of the Commission set up by Minister De Micheli – said Enrico Giovannini, Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility this afternoon, during the recording of Restart, broadcast tonight on Rai2 – is completing the work and will be broadcast to Parliament at very short, so as to open a public debate ».

The minister has not made it clear exactly what “very soon” means, but it is reasonable to think that the report will arrive in Parliament as early as next week. From that moment on, “the country will debate on this report which I have already studied – added Giovannini – and on which I have already made a series of observations, so as to start a serious debate in the next two weeks”.

“Reading the report, I found a lot of useful and important information on which the country is important that you reflect, elements that do not emerge from the public debate”, underlined the minister.

But does the report lean towards the ready-made and construction site project for the bridge or the tunnel project? “The hypothesis of the tunnel put forward by Prime Minister Conte – Giovannini limited himself to saying – is one of the hypotheses that the commission has taken into consideration”.

The commission considered three hypotheses to connect Calabria and Sicily both by rail and by road: the bridge, the tunnel resting on the seabed and then the tunnel itself. The report should contain a transport study, an economic evaluation and an engineering one.