Tomorrow Alessandro Morelli will be in Cortina to discuss the projects on the Games. Ghedina: “We will also need to talk about appointments given the delays in infrastructure”
CORTINA. Tomorrow afternoon he will be in Cortina Alessandro Morelli, undersecretariat with the powers relating to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, the coordination of the Anas commissioners, road interventions, the highway code, as well as water infrastructures and school buildings. The scheduled meetings will be used to discuss the birth of the Olympic Agency that will take care of the infrastructures planned for the Games. Morelli will also be accompanied to inspect the sites that in 2026 will host the women’s alpine skiing, curling, bobsleigh, luge and skeleton tests in Cortina.
“Thursday’s meeting with Undersecretary Morelli,” the mayor anticipates Gianpietro Ghedina, «It will first of all be an opportunity to understand what the timing is for starting with the Agency that will take care of the infrastructures of the Olympics not only in Cortina, but in all the areas affected by the Games, especially Veneto and Lombardy. It will therefore be another important day to try to speed up the process and make up for the time that has been lost a bit, because I must say that two years have passed since the assignment of the Games. As far as the organization of the Games is concerned, the Milano Cortina 2026 Foundation has been working for some time, but we hope that the one that will have to deal with the infrastructures will start soon. The theme will therefore be the formation of this Olympic Agency which will manage the infrastructures, especially roads. We will try to understand the chrono program a little. The expectations “, he reiterates,” are at this point that by June we can reach the formation of this Agency with the appointment of the commissioner who will take care of the infrastructures “.
Expectations already announced in Verona in the past few weeks in another meeting between Morellli and the presidents Luca Zaia (Veneto), Attilio Fontana (Lombardy), Maurizio Fugatti and Arno Kompatscher (Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano).
With the undersecretary we will discuss the Olympic Masterplan that the Region, Province and Municipality are jointly drawing up. And the Masterplan was discussed yesterday morning in the town hall. “We discussed”, explains Ghedina, “with the technicians of Anas, the director of the infrastructures of the Region, Elisabetta Pellegrini, with her staff and the Regole d’Ampezzo, both of the urban masterplan that we are planning for the Games and of the bypass long-awaited road and that will take away the crossing traffic from the center. Today there is the funding provided by the Olympic Funds and we are in the preparation phase of the project ». The intervention will cost around 250 million euros: it includes a 4 km long 100 meter tunnel that starts from La Riva, from via delle Guide alpine and exits in La Verra, after the hotels in the area. Through the new route, all the light vehicular flows will be absorbed, but above all the heavy crossing ones that have penalized the Conca for decades.a.s.